Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltic States and even the disposition of German territory. Secondly, she had disappointed the U.S. and Britain by choosing 35-year-old Ambassador Andrei Andreevich Gromyko to head her delegation. Yet on his arrival this week, fresh from Moscow, Ambassador Gromyko was "most optimistic" about the conference's success...
...been strongly hinted that the defendants, accused of conspiring with the Nazis to undermine morale in the U.S. armed forces, are trying to stall until the war ends. If delay has been a deliberate defense tactic, it has been a spectacular success. In the past 18 weeks...
...outstanding Soviet success of the week was achieved below Warsaw on the Vistula, where wily, leathery Marshal Konev captured the important rail town of Sandomierz, destroyed the Nazi garrison of three divisions, enlarged his bridgehead across the Vistula to 1,600 square miles. Adolf Hitler was said to have called Konev's position "a pistol pointed at the German empire...
...Kuwatly-Nuri plan was less spacious, more workable, stood a better chance of success. It aimed to reunite into a Greater Syria Federation four countries-Syria, the Lebanon, Palestine, Trans-Jordan-that had formed part of the old Ottoman Empire. Arab unity would be achieved in two stages: 1) the Greater Syria move under an agreed form of government; 2) a larger League of Arab States, to which the new Greater Syria and Iraq would immediately adhere. Other Arab States might come in when they wished...
...children from Manhattan to spend a fortnight's holiday in homes of white Vermont families (TIME, July 24). He had also received over 100 letters about it from interested strangers. One correspondent in nine disapproved, but the Vermonters and their visitors agreed that the experiment was a huge success...