Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians had shown clear signs of interest in a four-power conference, and although they had said they would accept no "prior conditions," some preliminary deal might be patched up. The great and growing success of the airlift had made the Russians lose face, on top of other losses in the spring and early summer...
Their documentary proved nothing new. It probably cured no addicts of the Communist drug pipe.* But in turning the spotlight of fact into dark corners of methods and basic philosophy, it achieved a notable success...
...last year when an aircraft student won the state oratory contest. Knowing that factory doors don't open so wide to Negroes, Campbell drills his students on writing letters of application and taking job tests, makes them conscious of neatness, work habits and "personality." Best measure of his success: Dunbar now takes only the top 15% of its applicants...
...plenty of warning. Five years ago, after a mild heart attack, her doctors warned her to ease up. Imperious Cissie Patterson went right on sipping Scotch & water and fine champagnes. She also went right on as owner, editor and publisher of the Times-Herald, which she had nursed to success after her friend William Randolph Hearst had failed...
Last week, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Petelka was looking for converts to his "Numbered Words," a code language that would probably have more appeal for mathematicians than for poets or orators. Whether it would achieve any more practical success than several thousand other international languages, hopefully devised by linguists and peace zealots ever since Babel (among them: Esperanto, Basic English, Volapiik, Novial, Ido, Ro, Nulango), was another story...