Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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India and Pakistan's bitter wrangle over Kashmir has lasted more than a month at Lake Success. Both have gone over & over the same ground, disagreed, referred the dispute back to the Security Council, postponed meetings; they suspended their debates after Gandhi's death, resumed private discussions. Last week, for the first time, the Security Council heard from a native of harried Kashmir, one who had come 8,000 miles to make his speech...
Enactment of the Barnes Bill would danger-signal to nations everywhere that "the American people had begun to succumb to a panic" destructive of "the whole basis for our success in a worldwide competition with an alien and hostile ideology." President Conant testified at the State House yesterday before the joint House-Senate Committee on Education...
...just at the opportune moment November 1929 comes along and brings a depression. Plot, part III, finally gets the band into the big time when Oscar Levant, erst-while pianist, takes over a brick factory which makes money, apparently better than music as the means to the band's success...
...When Harris made his first flight, despite his almost complete inability to fly a B17, some of the men developed a grudging respect for him. When he led his formation through the flak, "ordered a 360° turn, made the run all over again, bombed the target with great success, and lost one-third of his crews," he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. When Willie Turk, toughest and touchiest of the pilots, talked out of turn, Harris knocked him out with one punch...
...Instead of keeping it under observation they arrested the operator at once. This, he says, was typical. "Their haste to make a single arrest, when in most cases . . . patience in watching the man would have brought in a good haul, can be explained only by their thirst for personal success...