Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many U.N. delegates, like Eliot, last week lamented the oppressive necessity of committee labors, as they left the soothing color schemes of the Flushing Meadows Assembly Hall and moved into the modernistic maze of council chambers at Lake Success. But, dreary as the impending committee sessions might be, they held greater promise of concrete accomplishment than the past week of oratory. The delegates would do their real work and fight their real battles in six main committees (each composed of representatives of all 51 United Nations...
...gang can only afford a country house for our holiday because one of us [Sidney Webb] has a wife with a thousand a year. This time we have been joined by an Irish millionairess-a great catch for somebody*-whom we have incorporated into our Fabian family with great success...
...Generalissimo was happy, it was not because peace was in sight, but rather because the recent success of his armies has convinced many doubters that China can be unified by military means-as Chiang the Soldier had argued. In Nanking, both generals and politicians-who have not always agreed in the past-were talking of being able to clear main rail lines south of the Great Wall within three months. The generals had told Chiang they could take Harbin at any time...
Otto Traubel died before he could hear Helen sing Mendelssohn's Spring Song at her Wyman School commencement. (And Helen Traubel's mother died just three months before Helen's big Manhattan success...
...heads the liberal wing of the Catholic Peoples Party in Austria and has been mentioned as successor to the present Chancellor. He was prominent in the work of the Paris Peace Conference, where the settlement of the minority problem in Tyrol was hailed by General Smuts as the "only successful arrangement which came out of the Conference." His work in the United States has been met with partial success already, with the recent endorsement of Secretary of State Byrnes of Austrian admission...