Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody declared the party a big success. Bess Truman had made a good start as First Lady...
...week that top German physicists had thought such weapons were "a hundred years away." Far from being on the verge of atom bombs as the war ended, they were still in the early experimental stage. But, with German arrogance, they had thought that the Allies were even further from success...
...meets massacre in Irving Brecher's screenplay. The story concerns a lovely girl in a mythical land, convent-educated, who inherits millions and turns to her guardian angel for guidance through the maze of worldly wickedness she faces. It is a theme with light beauty, ethereal delicacy; for theatrical success, it would have to be handled with theatrical kid gloves. Brecher quite misses the boat. The story appears ridiculous as well as incredible and it is told in lines maudlin beyond imagination. Treated as fragile fancy, the nonsense may have been ingratiating; mugged by Astaire, Frank Morgan, and Mildred Natwick...
...will reflect in part the views of General Marshall. It will be based on these premises: 1) that a disorganized, divided China is an undermining influence to world peace, now and in the future; 2) that a strong, unified and effective China is of the utmost importance to the success of the United Nations' efforts to establish world peace...
Understanding & Doubts. At Ottawa, trade officials knew the urgency of keeping British shelves open to Canadian goods. They were fighting against British embargoes without hope of across-the-board success until the U.K. and the U.S. came to terms in their Washington deal for an American loan. But the Canadians, historically the third partner in the North Atlantic trade triangle, believed that the U.S. loan would not be big enough to let Britain spend dollars freely. The painful symbols of British economic austerity, they figured, might be reduced but hardly eliminated...