Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist methods of subversive propaganda and intrigue, with the infiltration of armed bands, might have great success against weak or vacillating opposition in a region already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...
...Prix Femina found their task too grisly, seemed about ready to leave prize-giving to the menfolk. "Life in today's novel," said one of the judges in an interview, "is twisted to eroticism. For instance, in Le Jeu et I'Enjeu [a recent French literary success] there is a revolting story. Two rats-you heard me -two rats fall upon a bed where two people are preparing to make bought love. I find that most symbolic of current literature...
Impressed by the success of cut-rate fares, scheduled airlines last week announced a new batch of low fares on transcontinental and transatlantic runs. Among them...
...this sense, private organizations working for cultural exchange have had far more success, a fact recognized by both the Army and the State Department. Unavoidably, government connection puts all work of the ISD at a disadvantage from the start. But further, private organizations have generally operated more understandingly and have attracted individuals of higher prestige and greater vision. Few of the personnel in the ISD have been able to convince the Germans or the Austrians that our victory resulted as much from the vitality of a way of life as from material superiority...
Corwin described the airwaves as in a mediocre condition today. He laid the blame for this mainly on sponsors who rely too much on advertising agencies and agencies that depend too greatly on the rating system for deciding a program's success...