Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emptiness spotlighted by the news from Europe. Last week, back at the White House, the President faced newsmen, who arrived full of questions and left nearly empty of answers. The New York Times's Arthur Krock was stirred to an annoyed essay on the House of Commons' success in extracting information from Winston Churchill. But the President, rested and amiable, spoke his small news with a good-humored...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's skillful breakthrough had had the first great element of success: surprise. He had struck the thinnest sector of the American line. He had cleverly begun with light attacks, concealing his intentions, playing upon the Americans' underestimation of his strength...
...Manhattan, Correspondent White drawled: "I hope the play is a success...
...daughter, who among them hold 31 college and university degrees (Karl, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arthur, University of Chicago's Nobel Prize physicist; Wilson, Washington, D.C., econonist and lumber executive; and Mary Rice, Presbyterian missionary); in Wooster, Ohio. Of his mother's formula for family success, Son Wilson once observed: "She depended on the Bible, soap and castor...
Since the tremendous success which greeted "Oklahoma" choreography, it has become fashionable for every bigtime show to feature ballet. Jerome Robbins, choreographer of Bernstein's "Fancy Free," has produced an energetic series of dance which are the high points of the evening. Sono Obato performs with such grace and precision; what she lacks as an actress is amply compensated for by poins and artistic elegance. "Miss Turnstiles," an imaginative ballet, pokes fun at the ephemeral grandeur of the young women who gain "Miss Something" titles...