Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China and the U.S. would agree that the mission had been highly successful-or at least coincided with success. China had its treaty with Russia and it was peacefully debating with the once rambunctious Chinese Communists. No one, least of all Pat Hurley, would contend that the U.S. Ambassador had brought all this about. Chiang Kai-shek and Premier T. V. Soong had achieved the treaty with Moscow without outside help, and the treaty had immediately broken the back of Chinese Communist resistance...
State Secretary Jimmy Byrnes had played for high stakes in London, with something less than average success. Last week, for future play in the European game, Harry Truman gave him a new stack of chips: control of surplus property disposal abroad...
...Assistant Secretaries, the new executives, like their predecessors, will have little to do with policy matters, will be primarily concerned with keeping records. Neither has a success formula for girls who want to make the long climb from hot kitchen to air-conditioned office-except ambition. Said Mrs. Porter: "It has been wonderful, though, to see the effect our appointment has had on the other women of the company. It has given them all renewed hope. . . . It's a milestone for women in the conservative man's world...
...Bard of Whitehorse. A month later, walking home from a party in the moonlight, a new line came to him: "There are strange things done in the midnight sun. . . . Though I did not know it [The Cremation of Sam McGee] was to be the keystone of my success." For more than a year "McGrew" and "McGee" lay with a sheaf of other manuscripts among Service's shirts. At last his "author complex" drove him to send them off to a publisher with oo to pay for 104 their private printing. The composing-room crew, who set up the ringing...
Thereafter, Bank Clerk Service answered to the epithet of "Bard" and became Whitehorse's leading celebrity. After repeating his first success with Ballads of a Cheechako and a popular novel of the Gold Rush, The Trail of '98, he was free to live and wander as he liked...