Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poonsters, however, have not been idle in their frantic efforts to foil the oncoming CRIMSON tide. Midnight in the Bow Street aviary has been the scene for oil burning as the board of ibitors plotted their revenge. Coming up with a plan they hope will succeed, the funnymen have spent the past week drafting strong arm plug uglies into their organization in an effort to crowd the roster with big time sluggers
...become a nation of ants," he said, "we may succeed. We must each do our small share. Those who have homes must help those who haven't. How will we pay for all this? We won't. We will be a nation without rnoney-our money is no good anyway. We will all draw the same rations, all do our share of work, all draw the same kind and amount of clothing-gradually then perhaps we will be able to rebuild our cities, industries, what we need to live. But it makes my head swim...
...point where Moscow and I agree; namely, that there shall be no "Jonah unity" in the postwar world. If we both mean what we say, we can get along famously together on this point. I should like to recall one other sentence from that speech: we shall not succeed in our desperately important postwar peace plans by "a snarling process of international recrimination in which every United Nation's capital tries to outdo the other in bitter backtalk about the infirmities of each." I earnestly suggest a moratorium by all concerned until we can sit down together in mutual...
...succeed in hiding yourself...
When the hero tries to sneak out to keep a date with a girl he does like, the boss locks him in. When he does succeed in getting near enough to a girl to make a pass, she bloodies his nose for his unfaithfulness to his overpublicized "fiancee." When he goes to a newsreel theater to see what they have made of him ("Hero of the Week," the billboard bellows) and can't keep his opinions on his stomach, an infuriated civilian turns in the dark and cracks...