Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain fighting men in the Allied armies, who know at firsthand that the bills of victory are footed in blood, the Russian success meant the shortening of the war by months-meant, in one word of universal longing, home. To those at home, waiting for the return of sons, brothers and husbands, it meant new hope. To all it meant peace-peace, in the sense that Abraham Lincoln had said it-"wonderful, wonderful peace...
...labor in the countryside." The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters . . . in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or in frost and sunshine. God speed the plough...
...Greece, No Apologies. "I have never been connected with any large enterprise of policy about which I was more sure in mind and conscience of the rectitude of our motives, of the clarity of our principles, and of the vigor, precision and success of our action, than what we have done in Greece...
Explaining his success not long ago, Hopkins said: "You must recognize that the most important thing in dealing with the President is to understand his signal system. With ordinary people you listen to what they say, watch their lips maybe. But with the President, you've got to pay attention to his eyebrows. They're his signals. They're more important than what he says with his mouth. The reason I've stayed with the President so long is that I understand his signals...
Ambassador Oumansky might have spared himself the trouble. Secret agents could not have been the cause of the recent increase of Russian influence in Mexico and the rest of Latin America. He had worked hard, skillfully and effectively to raise Soviet prestige in Mexico. His great success had been due in part to his personal ability, in part to Red Army victories, in part to the desire (widespread in Latin America) to find a counterpoise to the U.S. (A fortnight ago seven Latin American governments at long last recognized Russia...