Word: successful
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...signature of its chief executive and the overwhelming approval of its people, as seeking "no aggrandizement, territorial or otherwise." At almost every international gathering since then, American diplomats have steadfastly and admirably insisted on being the protectors of dependent peoples and non-self-governing areas, sometimes without much practical success. Especially since the institution of the Byrnes "patient but firm" policy toward Russia, rarely have the men of the various nations' foreign ministeries met without the U. S. representatives excoriating the Soviet Union for its actions of international bad faith and suspicion on this point. The American finger has been...
...plays," asserted Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G, head of the Workshop's play-reading committee. "We hope that by giving the students a chance to voice their preferences in advance, we will be able to find a play with sufficient drawing power to be a financial as well as artistic success," he added...
Chained Seal. At 37, Milton Caniff was a widely imitated, $70,000-a-year success. His Terry strip was on the radio; a Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movie was in the works. Why give it all up? For a reason of his own, Caniff wanted more. In Florida, when he was 18, he was bitten by a mosquito and got phlebitis, an inflammation of the veins that made the Army-and insurance doctors-turn him down. Because of his quick-clotting blood, says Caniff, "even a bad bump on the leg could bump...
...Japan's Chief of the Naval General Staff in 1941, issued the order for the attack on Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack; while on trial before the International War Crimes Tribunal; in Tokyo. Said he of the Pearl Harbor attack: It "achieved far greater success than I had expected. . . . . I made no mistake...
September Song; Just a Gigolo (Joe Mooney Quartet, Decca, 2 sides). The first record by the quietly unorthodox new jazz group which became an instant success in Manhattan (TIME...