Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governor's powers; they could fix the governor's powers if they could decide who would boss Trieste's police. And nothing was lost so far, except a lot of diplomatic blood, sweat, tears, toil. Cheap at the price, in other words, in the event of success...
Most of them now work in a reconverted wing of the Sperry Gyroscope Plant at Lake Success, L.I. Their offices, nicknamed "rabbit warren," are cramped, mostly without windows, and erratically air-conditioned. The international civil servants work hard, gripe some, get on without nationalist friction but also without ardent international friendship. Few of them have a sense of high mission in their work; last week, their foremost hope was that the Assembly would get done before Christmas. But most observers agreed that they were doing a workmanlike job of keeping the Assembly grinding away at its curiously varied tasks...
Forebodings. In his Forest Hills house and in his Lake Success office, Lie treasures a secret gadget: a loudspeaker connected with the U.N. public-address system which permits him to follow the debate in any U.N. committee room. Frequently, when he hears something he dislikes, Lie picks up the phone and passes a tip to an aide on the scene...
Meanwhile, Giannini's sassy, satirical weekly Uomo Qualunque had gained the largest circulation in Italy by appealing to the disgruntled political orphans of Fascism. He had openly invited amnestied Fascists into the party and had given high position's to the wealthier ones. Qualunquists figured that success at the polls would bring them further contributions from wealthy industrialists...
...still a question whether Brazil's big farmers would be willing to follow Nelson Rockefeller's gleam. And would Brazilian capitalists be attracted by anything but exorbitant profits? Still, a little success would go a long way in big, backward Brazil. And such a commercially helpful hand would be a potent implement to U.S. foreign policy...