Word: successful
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...most emphatic and explicit tones the entire administration of the Caudillo and would substitute for it a constitutional monarchy. As forceful as his dislike of Franco is Hoare's hearty endorsement of Count Francisco Jordana, who was for two years Franco's Minister for Foreign Affairs. He credits the success of the North African invasion operations partly to Jordana's co-operative and discreet attitude--"pro-Ally to the core...
Porter chalked up his first (minor) success by getting the Government to slash the number of its proliferating ministries from 43 to 15. Mark Ethridge cleared the decks for action by the U.N. commission (which had so far been bogged down in endless, petty testimonies) by obtaining unanimous agreement to limit witnesses' time to one hour, and by sending field teams to the troubled northern border. Greece at last had a coalition Government. The new Premier, in place of Tsaldaris, was frail, ailing ex-Banker Demetrios Maximos, a nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case...
...secret of my success," Roscoe Pound once wrote, "is my blame memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb. (he was the son of a local judge), he used to disrupt Sunday school classes by rattling off a chapter of the Bible after only one reading. After graduating from the University of Nebraska at 17, he studied and practiced law, found time to take a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska (there is a roscopoundia lichen...
...compact affair. It was a mammoth multi-pronged attack, with the flanks about 900 miles apart. While the U.S. task force struck Morocco along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans, with all the engines stowed aboard...
...plan of "quite desperate nature"; General Marshall had reported that old hands in Washington gave it only a 50-50 chance; both U.S. and British navies had counseled against it. That it succeeded, Morison concludes, proves that it was "fundamentally sound and wise." But, he adds, the difference between success and failure is sometimes less a matter of wisdom than of inches in a torpedo's course or "a few yards deflection in the fall of a.salvo...