Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wears the air of a man who has at last found his right job, who is doing just what he was made for and has been looking for all his life. He likes the feel and atmosphere of public success which he has had in London, and shows it in an assured, confident manner...
TIME'S London bureau cabled last week: "The secret of Douglas' success in dealing with Britons is that he remains thoroughly American, yet manages to be the complete antithesis of the grotesque caricature so many Britons have built up of the typical American: loudmouthed, loud-suited and inclined to give a condescending slap on the aching British back...
...much desperate hope for U.N.'s success bring forth such a schizoid mouse of futility? It was not the fault of the delegates-mostly hardworking, second-rate men who would have done no better had they been first-rate. U.N. could not stand above the nations because it was created by nations who wished nothing to stand above their sovereignty. And why was that? Because these nations did not recognize, as individuals within a nation did, the same basic laws; they were not parts of the same society. The Communist leaders had known this for 40 years...
...told the Senate that the Reds were a fifth column for Russia, that they did not belong in the Labor Palace and that they did not represent Cuban labor. By the time he had finished almost everyone but the Communists seemed satisfied. Prio hoped that his Senate success had placed him securely in the No. 1 position to succeed his old friend, President Grau...
...Voluntary health insurance] is not good enough. . . . What troubles me most are the needs of that sizable segment of society which does not earn enough to pay for voluntary insurance. . . . Nothing has been suggested so far which promises success other than some form of insurance covering these people in by law and financed by the Government, at least in part. ... A form of compulsory health insurance . . . can be devised . . . without the Government taking over medicine, something I would fiercely oppose...