Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brereton jumped his men - more thousands who soon fluttered in as reinforcements - with a reminder: "On the success of your mission . . . rests the difference between a quick decision in the west and a long-drawn-out battle...
Then the latest success story: Gil Cross's poem on the "Lackawanna' pulling him up by his run-down heels into super-brilliant prominence. Through all his sudden success, Gil remains natural as ever--even speaking to non-Californians...
...Author Dixon Wecter (The Saga of American Society; The Hero in America}, professor of English at the University of California, has written a fascinating study of the profound tension and misunderstanding between civilians and veterans, of civilians' short memories and seeming ingratitude, of veterans' increasing success in rewarding themselves through their organized political strength...
...when X-day dawned the veteran found himself in straits common to millions of veterans throughout history. Wrote one of them: "I com down by the markett and sits down all alone allmost Descureged and begun to think over how I had ben in the army, what ill success I had met with there . . . and now that I could not get into any besness . . . you may well think how I felt." Like most of his fellows he began by selling his paper bonus to a speculator for a pittance. Then he pocketed his pride and begged. "I went into Nombers...
Other royalties were collected by Lieut. General Patch's northbound Seventh Army, which pushed the Germans hard on the retreat which they had no choice of making because of Eisenhower's success in northern France...