Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...314th, Emmett("Rosie") O'Donnell of the veteran 73rd and John Davies of the 313th. LeMay had a plan: to throw the whole force at Tokyo at night from 5,000 and 6,000 feet, using the new M69 incendiary bombs. The plan might be a spectacular success or it might be an earth-shaking failure-some officers speculated that three-quarters of the planes might be shot down...
...offer was not necessarily a failure. Its authors had not expected an instant success; it was a slow-burning fire. And it had been timed to precede the shock of the new atomic bomb, a weapon which would hit Japan and the Japanese as no land or people had ever before been hit (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Soon the survivors might be more receptive...
Stocky Pietro Mascagni tried 14 times to repeat his success. (Shrewish Signora Mascagni, a peasant girl wrapped in furs on the profits of Cavalleria, jealously selected the casts of all 15). But the audiences that cheered and wept over Cavalleria booed and hissed its pedantic successors...
Nothing recedes like success. In the field of juvenile literature, Horatio Alger Jr., four of whose novels have just been reissued in this volume, was once regarded as the most successful writer who ever lived. Directly or indirectly he influenced the life of every U.S. town boy born between 1870 and 1900. Farm boys had less time and money for fiction, but if they did read stories, they read Alger; thousands of them imitated his heroes by going to Manhattan to seek their fortunes. But Alger's books lost most of their public during World...
...legation's secret NKVD agent took Barmine out for a drink and regaled him with stories of his former success in kidnapping recalcitrant comrades. Then he added: "You know, it wouldn't be difficult to get rid of a man in this country. There's always somebody willing to undertake a little job of that kind for five or ten thousand drachmas, and you can take it from me the police will know nothing...