Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commuters fought vainly against the white wasteland of Lake Success. Others gave up; one French delegate (ignoring all traffic signals because of U.N. immunity) spent his time skiing down Manhattan's Park Avenue. Even the U.N. bar was almost deserted. One afternoon, a silent figure joined a handful of hardy newsmen. Over his whiskey, he growled: "Thash the trouble with thish place. Not an Irishman around." Anonymously, he disappeared...
Washington was heartened by the Greek success at Konitsa (achieved partly with U.S. arms), but that success could be overestimated. All of Greece, like little Konitsa, was besieged by Communism. The larger siege must be lifted and Greece must be made safe. This the Truman Doctrine had stated. It would take more than a dash up a mule track by hardy Greek soldiers to achieve that end. How much would it take? No one was sure, but last week the U.S. Navy provided a clue. It announced that it was sending enough U.S. Marines to its Mediterranean force...
Their leader, Leonard de Paur, 34, is a stocky, scholarly looking Negro who, at 18, toured Loew's circuit clutching a battered straw hat and singing Ol' Man River. A friend introduced him to Hall Johnson, who had just scored his Green Pastures success. De Paur got most of his choral training as a singer and assistant conductor of the Hall Johnson Choir before...
Northeastern's only success in four starts, however is an opening game victory over M.I.T., 6 to 4, and the Crimson will be favored tonight in its bid to re-enter the win column after a six-game famine...
...encouragement of "Idomeneo" leaves one wondering where Mr. Goldovsky will head after his January 18 "Don Giovanni," the last scheduled production of the series. He and his troupe ought now to struggle for the facilities to do more frequent productions, watching the quality all the while. With this first success in Opera Seria (in which, incidentally, the English translation went much better than it did in their recent Opera Buffa success, "Figaro") they might try next "La Clemenza di Tito," another Mozart work in the form and the last opera he wrote. Perhaps they might experiment with Berlioz, Giordano...