Word: successful
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...replace him, the State Department picked another career diplomat: George V. Allen, 45, onetime chief of the department's Middle Eastern Affairs division. As U.S. ambassador to Persia from 1946 to 1948, George Allen had served in another trouble spot during a troubled time, with conspicuous success. Recalled to Washington in 1948, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (i.e., propaganda chief) and took over the job of giving vigor and consistency to the quavering Voice of America. The U.S.S.R. gave him the firmest recognition of his work; it put more than 200 stations...
Forty children, each four years old, last week assembled in the delegates' dining room at Lake Success to celebrate U.N.'s fourth anniversary. They were children of U.N. staffers and diplomats; under the watchful eyes of Mrs. Carlos Romulo, Mrs. Warren Austin and other U.N. wives, they cavorted in native costumes, ate ice cream & cake, and, in the words of the New York Herald Tribune, "declined to comment on international affairs...
Since Australia was a place where no questions were asked, Cotten soon became a financial success, but failed to gain social recognition because of his rough manners. This combination of circumstances caused Ingrid Bergman to be very despondent and constantly drunk, until the "other man" played by Michael Wilding, came along. After helping her back to sanity, making a pass, and surviving an accidental bullet in his belly, Wilding went back to England, leaving the couple to relative happiness as they walked into the sunset...
...gain of 23 yards. On the play which set up the Harvard held goal, West took a lateral from Rocks on a cries-cross play and went 17 yards to the Holy Cross seven. This play, which Harvard had worked once before in the first quarter without such success suggest, seemed to typify the Harvard offense--West and Roche--mere than any other...
Outside of the city of Boston, Curley's success has, been very limited. Beaton twice for governor, in 1924 by Alvin T. Fuller and in 193 8by Leverett Saltonstall, he was in the State House for only one term, 1934-6; and those were the years of Roosevelt's first term when no democrat could lose. In the last year of his governorship, he ran for the Senate against Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and lost even though it was the first time Lodge had ron for political office...