Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brezhnev did succeed in forging a front of European Communist unity. The pact partners issued periodic blasts throughout the week at the "imperialist" U.S. and even vowed to send "volunteers" to Viet Nam if Ho Chi Minh called for help. All of the pact members had made such offers before, but Ho has yet to take them up. Unity was maintained-on the surface at least-right up to the moment that Brezhnev boarded his Aeroflot Ilyushin-18 to fly back to Moscow. After kissing a row of little girls and accepting a spray of red gladioli, Brezhnev heartily embraced...
American pilots who in one year have forged a brilliantly successful new tactical role for air power over Viet Nam, showed last week that the U.S. can indeed succeed. On the ground, American fighting men are not only taking on wily veterans of guerrilla warfare but are also inflicting losses that no foe can afford to take indefinitely. Yet in the long run, the kind of success envisaged by the President can be earned only by the nation that is most determined to win-at any price. The time for magnanimity, as the U.S. finally made clear last week...
...suffer agony to see young artists go through the humiliation of a competition," grumbled Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky last week. "The joy of those who succeed is spoiled by the sorrow of those who have been hurt...
Industrialization need not involve private capitalism, as Soviet Russia has demonstrated, but it can scarcely succeed without many Western attitudes. Modern industry requires a measure of individual initiative, self-reliance, risk-taking. It requires a belief in progress, in the reality of the material world. Instead of a fixed order, it needs a fluid system in which people can rise through merit. It does not necessarily require democracy, although Edwin Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, points out that it must have literacy and mass communication-which usually lead people to demand more participation in their government...
...John Han cock Mutual Life Insurance Co., the nation's fifth largest insurance firm. Using them, salesmen have so far written about $1,500,000 worth of policies for farmers and small-town businessmen. The man who conceived the idea had reason to believe that it would succeed. Robert E. Dye, 51, a John Hancock vice president, worked his way through the University of California as a Good Humor man, shifted the chocolate-coated sell from ice cream to insurance...