Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duff governor in 1946, they had no reason to expect that he would be anything but "regular." Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb. Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success. On the side, he liked to read Elizabethan poetry...
Like Poor Old Benes. The Marshall Plan was not a futile gesture. Indeed, its preliminary success probably forced the Kremlin strategists to move in Czechoslovakia and Finland while the moving was still easy. The Marshall Plan was, however, an incomplete gesture. Greece won't be won by canned pineapples nor China by made-in-Washington land reforms. The Czech coup might not have been tried if the U.S. had not looked helpless in Greece, helpless in China, and silly -or worse-in Palestine...
From iron-curtained Bulgaria the U.N.'s International Children's Emergency Fund at Lake Success last week received a poem in praise of milk. It was written by an eleven-year-old girl, Marche Dobreva, inmate of Sofia's Michena Greza Orphanage and one of 3,500,000 children in twelve European nations receiving supplemental food from the fund...
...Futile Success. In 1938, Pyke decided that Hitler could not be dislodged until Britain knew what the Germans really thought. He planned a sort of Gallup poll of the Third Reich-his investigators were to be disguised as a visiting British golf team...
Despite such setbacks, the Reds' success had been dazzling. In a few months they would be able to go wherever they wanted north of the Yangtze, and even South China was restive...