Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning, Mr. Byrnes had steadily grown up in the job, learning how to be firm but not hostile with the Russians, learning where American self-interest in walking the Bevin chalk line ended and pulling British chestnuts out of the fire began. In a large measure, the over-all success of the recent meeting of the U.N. Assembly in New York is owning to the efforts of a man who it is now revealed wanted to resign as long ago as last July. It is with genuine regret, then, that the majority of Americans watch the departure of Mr. Byrnes...
Winner Hawks, 26, who used to model for fun and now for fun hunts game with sportsmen like Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway (see col. 3), thought it was "awfully nice" to get picked, offered a partial explanation of her success: "I have a tall, skinny frame that clothes look well on." She wears no hats. She's a "great believer in simplicity in clothes," she said, and figured that in '46 she spent about one-fourth as much on her wardrobe as any of the other best-dressed-at the most, $10,000 (not counting furs...
...roundup," a quick look at people in scattered places, was invented by newspapers, borrowed with spectacular success by radio. Last week the New York Times used it with good results. To 18 Times correspondents round the world went cabled orders for a 600-word interview with a "common man" in each country...
...musician, Bill Karzas' success is partially due to his knack for picking bands people like. Says he : "I know good music when I hear it, just the same as I can't cook but I know good food when...
...Spanish Foreign Legion saved Melilla. Then and later Barea heard legionaries speak with awe of the cold and murderous courage of an officer named Francisco Franco. He also learned of a cynical doctrine held by some military careerists: it would never do to relieve Spain-either by complete success or withdrawal-of the mess and waste of the Moroccan adventure...