Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies succeed in pushing back the German Army in Norway and disrupting its communications across the Skagerrak, Germany will have urgent military need to send supplies and support through Sweden. Conversely, the Allies, if they succeed in taking Narvik, might be tempted to seize the Swedish iron-ore mines at Kiruna and Gällivare. Sweden did not think this likely but fear of it might give Germany another motive for invasion...
...Hitler is blocked at the Maginot line, and Napoleon forced Spain into the war to get a base for invading England. The French and Spanish fleets then feinted an attack on the West Indies to draw Nelson's fleet from the Channel. That this elaborate trick did not succeed was Nelson's glory: he guessed it, doubled back, saved Britain at Trafalgar...
...proponents of the plan succeed in getting the necessary 10 per cent of the voters at the last election, or approximately 5,500 people, to sign the petition, the plan will mandatorily be placed on the ballots next fall...
Other religious music pales beside the Mass. Mozart and Beethoven both wrote masses of unquestionable beauty, but since they were more in the secular tradition than Bach they did not succeed so well in pouring into these works their own greatness of spirit. The Easter music from "Parsifal" likewise, for all its magic, seems mere tour de force, coloristic effect, next to the Mass; Wagner was concerned chiefly with recreating the atmosphere of legend and not with creating a setting for Christian devotion. The Bach B minor Mass is, in fact, a unique work. Consequently, its performance next Sunday...
...zaro Cárdenas, when he chooses to play the dictator, can pull the country out of a crisis, but he is an idealist and his ideal is the Constitution. The Constitution says that the President may not succeed himself, and so Cárdenas will not run. He will not even endorse a candidate. "The people must choose," says...