Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during one week when in terrific air battles 642 German fighters were shot down); and some time in March, when the German air force was outclassed, it reached a stage of exploitation, which still continues-the systematic crippling of Germany by air, which has done much to increase the success of Allied ground blows...
After the success of the "field trip" that was made for Management, it seems as though more of these excursions should be planned by the powers that be. Not only did the trip give us something tangible to work on when we think of Management, but it was also a very pleasant experience...
...Kirschbaum, who in one of his more violent jitterbug frenzies almost floored us and his date for keeps; Tommy Smith in an angle in the wall deep in intellectual fog with someone very charming to be that way with; Dan Brestel, also fighting toward the bar with little success; and Jason Widmer, who had his buffet supper with his date at Revere Beach...
...come in and tell me that they are going to divorce their wives. I have little success trying to get them to patch it up. After a man has flown 70 or 90 missions over Europe, laying his life on the block to protect his home, and then finds his home has been wrecked by infidelity, there is little I can tell him to convince him he should forgive and forget...
Born for war, Mosby fared far less famously in peace. He served seven years as U.S. Consul at Hong Kong, returned to enjoy a modest success in the North as author and lecturer. But "the reckless abandon with which he attacked and galloped away as a Partisan could not be repeated as a citizen." Sunk in irascible senility, he died at Washington in 1916, aged 82, his glory all but forgotten...