Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the success of the Yard football team, a new basketball league, comprising six Yard quintets, is being organized under the supervision of Adolph Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics. The teams will play a round-robin schedule with the winner playing the champion of the House League for the intramural championship...
Niblo, a former football coach from Denver, was so sure of success that he started this week to teach the Virginia reel to a group of Nagasaki physical-education instructors. "After all," mused Niblo, "the average Japanese has nothing to do in the evening...
Changed Times. By the time the San Francisco Conference met in 1945, the line was changing. Nelson Rockefeller's immoderate success at cajoling Latin American delegates into a voting bloc gave rise to Soviet-American asperities. Just then three Soviet diplomats from Latin America paid Molotov a flying visit. It was soon clear what they had been told: Latin America's Commies soon rediscovered "American imperialism," began to line up an anti-American front-which could be useful when the Soviets bargained with the U.S. at the peace table. It led to strange friendships. Example: Argentina...
...lack of soap, water and penicillin, 80% of the people of Haiti are afflicted with the foul, rotting disease known as yaws. That was the grim news last week from a U.S. Sanitary Mission which has been manfully fighting yaws in Haiti for nearly three years-with little success...
...house guest whom he pushed downstairs because she gave him too little attention. He was ugly, and in his teens dismayed society by not only looking but behaving like a troglodyte, as Turgenev called him. Neither dressing like a fop nor training on horizontal bars brought the shy Count success with fashionable ladies. He took refuge in boorishness and brothels...