Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marked contrast to the Manner heim Line was the German film, Blitzkrieg im Westen. It was designed to overawe all who see it. If it drives U. S. audiences under the bed, it will succeed, but it seemed more likely to shock complacent Americans and make them aware of the swift, titanic, destructive power of the greatest military force in the world today: the German Army...
...Willkie did not succeed in leading his crusade to victory...
...once associated with Chamberlain and the Cliveden set and that horrid word, appeasement. There were old-fashioned family tie-ups: the only other Foreign Secretary who subsequently became Ambassador to the U. S., Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was Lord Halifax's third cousin, and the man named to succeed him, Anthony Eden, is also his third cousin.* Lord Halifax certainly represented the old Britain. But in London there was a feeling that Lord Halifax would be fine...
...friend and your Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian. I am very certain that if he had been allowed by Providence to leave us a last message he would have told us that the greatest of all efforts to retain democracy in the world must and will succeed...
Basketball and football coach Wes Fesler last night officially denied all rumors that he would be head football coach at his alma mater. Ohio State. A newspaper story yesterday included him with Earl Blaik and Jock Sutherland as likely prospects to succeed Head Coach Francis Schmidt who recently resigned at the Ohio University...