Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special session of Congress to consider more aid to Europe (see Foreign Relations). Harry Truman, still at sea, let it be known that he was not yet in favor of a special session. After all, it might be a perilous move. Unless the session were assured of success, it might be better not to call it. Not to hold it might be even more dangerous...
...last week that it had fired its first long-range rocket at sea. From the carrier Midway, somewhere off Bermuda, a German V-2 roared out, veered sideways, exploded six miles away. Navy spokesmen blamed a defective steering gyro for the erratic flight. The shipboard launching, they said, was successful. Success or not, it officially opened a new era of naval warfare...
...flushing circus owner. It straddles two generations of easy-money mischief and scalps a whole zoo full of roguish characters. It is as blusteringly improbable as a W. C. Fields movie, and has some of the same appeal. Beneath the bluster, Gus the Great skillfully satirizes the great American success story...
...factor that makes Mac beam the brightest is the success of the pre-season practice. Twenty-five athletes reported on the Business School Field for the first practice Monday and by yesterday the number had risen to 40. "Why, before this year," Mac said, "no one ever appeared until the first Jay of registration...
...Jones Boys. Luck had something to do with Calumet's success-but not too much. Calumet has led all U.S. racing stables in income for five of the past seven years. What Calumet has, besides plenty of capital, is a lot of good horse-sense. All its horses come from the same incubator-1,038 acres of rolling blue-grass just outside Lexington, Ky. Its proprietor is placid Warren Wright, who inherited his millions from Calumet baking powder. His recipe for breeding horses: "Just mix the best with the best and hope for the best...