Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supported it once it was launched. When Wendell Willkie was preparing to go on the air to attack the Eisenhower-Darlan agreement, Stimson grabbed for his telephone. "I told him flatly that if he criticized the Darlan agreement at this juncture he would run the risk of jeopardizing the success of the United States Army in North Africa and would be rendering its task very much more difficult...
This week the Dominion's juiciest diplomatic assignment was still going beg ging. At Lake Success, until a willing and acceptable man is found, the job of representing Canada would probably be filled by External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister, behind a screen of refrigerated secretaries, said nothing...
Industry Creator. Midwest's success in projects for small companies brought commissions from big ones. Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) asked the institute to work on new uses for petroleum byproducts; the U.S. Government hired it to make a survey of the industrial potential of the Missouri Valley...
...quest for experience that motivates the H.A.A. to schedule road trips for the hockey team with such opposition as McGill and Colorado, the recently concluded tour may be considered a success. The Varsity dropped five straight without a single...
Keystone of the success of the performance was Ann Bollinger, who sang the male lead, Idamantes, with assurance and great ability, and acted the part as well. Even the love duets, usual stumbling-block for male impersonators in the opera, went well at her hands. Naney Trickey was excellent in the part of Ilia, fulfilling particularly well the difficult assignment of holding the stage alone for more than five minutes at the start of the opera. In the role of the sinister Electra, who has the best aria of the piece, a magnificent last-act preface to suicide, Paula Lenchner...