Word: success
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airport, reporting on the Paris meeting, Acheson greeted the President soberly: "I'm afraid we didn't accomplish too much." At his press conference two days later he went into more detail. A newsman asked: "Was the conference a failure or a success?" The Secretary of State replied sharply: "Why do we have to take a dichotomy and say it is a success or a failure?" Big Four parleys, he explained in his precise way, are no longer enough in themselves to achieve striking changes or to create new crises. Like steam gauges which indicate how much pressure...
...manure. It developed into a new kind of city-a sprawling confederacy of villages, with five branch city halls and 932 identifiable neighborhoods, in which life is dedicated to the sun, the lawn sprinkler and the backyard grill, and in which the swimming pool is the mark of success and distinction...
...Szent-Gyorgyi's exciting experiences have been scientific. He is one of the second wave of eminent scientists who fled to the U.S. to escape totalitarianism. The first wave, driven from Europe by Fascists and Nazis, was largely responsible for the success of the atom-bomb project. Now the U.S. is getting super-valuable men who are slipping out of the Soviet satellite countries...
What chance, asked Senator Fulbright, did Lustron have of success? "About 50-50," said Gunderson. On its past performance, that seemed overoptimistic...
Such work is slow and expensive: nitrogen 15 costs $1,000 for a single study. But already Dr. Brown's group have had one outstanding, success in their study of a cell's reproductive system. They used an artificial compound called 2,6-diaminopu-rine, not yet isolated in nature, which they thought had a momentary existence inside the cell. The organic chemists synthesized some of this compound and turned it over to the chemotherapists. They thought that it might have the sought-for "differential effect" on lawless cancer cells...