Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly 300 House residents crowded Harvard Athletic Association offices yesterday afternoon trying to get ticket envelopes for the Cornell game. They did not succeed...
...great latent physical strength, but fat and rather flabby. Meeting him, one was conscious of both amiability and weakness. He did not seem a political animal but resembled the clever, helpless youth in a Huxley novel, an outsize Cherubino intent on amorous experience but too shy and clumsy to succeed. He sought refuge on the more impetuous and emancipated fringes of Bloomsbury and Chelsea...
...into the open arms of the ambitious and amoral family coachman. Today, 67 years after the play was first produced, the social implications of such a liaison have lost much of their urgency. Sjoberg realized that and emphasized Strindbergh's nearly Freudian character study. Unfortunately, he did not quite succeed--Julie still remains, if not actually dull, at least somewhat remote...
Says Nasser of the night of July 22, 1955:"I went from house to house giving our officers the word. My job was to convince them all that we were bound to succeed. I convinced myself in talking to them. At 11 p.m. I got word from our people in intelligence that the palace knew about the plot. I was without feeling. I was very tired. The officer asked if we should call it off and I said, 'No, the wheel is turning and it cannot be stopped.' " The wheel made its full turn in the next three...
Time After Time. In Milwaukee, arrested for smashing a jewelry store display window and stealing five watches three weeks after serving a term for committing the same crime in 1953, David W. Griffus, 28, told police: "I thought I could succeed this time...