Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history of warfare." The British, moreover, are at bottom not so bad, and much "like us." The catch is that they always act in what seems to be their national interest, irritating practice to the U.S., which also wants to act that way. "The British did not succeed in imposing their will on us, and the war was won more or less on our own terms." Even so, Editor Ingersoll is in no mood to forget the past or be appeased. Top Secret's top secret: Albion is perfidious...
...fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
...indeed the promised land-for men. How different, he exclaimed wistfully, were things in China: "In Chungking, boy students running after girl students find it a very hard job indeed. A boy would often exhaust the strength of nine oxen and two tigers and still not succeed. If their endeavors were used in America, American girls would consider them as most ideal sweethearts...
...some 3,000,000 Americans thus search the heavens so avidly? One guess was that war and The Bomb had hit the nation right in its lunar plexus. But people were still asking the same old questions: "Will I succeed?" "Will I get married?" "Where is William?" Only Southern California seemed worried about the future. Out of 42 letters received in a month by one fashionable Hollywood horoscopist, 14 asked: "Where is a safe place for me to move...
George Marshall paused, puckered his brow intently, continued with even more deliberation: "If we are to have peace-if the world wants peace, there are compelling reasons why China's present effort must succeed. This depends in a large measure on actions of other nations. If China is ignored, or if there is scheming to thwart her present aspirations, her effort will fail...