Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spectator. Tom Dewey wasted no time in capitalizing on his success to date. Sunday he told newsmen: "We invited Wendell to join us." But Willkie replied by wire: "I shall be glad to meet Mr. Dulles on his way to the conference . . . since ... the discussions between the Secretary and Mr. Dulles are to be of nonpartisan character." As the debate began, Wendell Willkie-still a man to be counted-was content to watch...
...northern France they faced a crushing defeat, tried to stave it off by witless, expensive gambits without hope of success. In Italy, where the battle stood temporarily in stalemate, they had latterly shown no tactic but to retreat, fight, retreat again. On the Eastern Front they fought as if salvation depended only on spending everything they had left...
Allied officials were in a quandary when Polish air crews and airborne troops in Britain volunteered to go to the aid of the Warsaw patriots. How could they be sent with hope of success across the whole of Germany? How could they even effectively drop supplies and ammunition from the air when, in fluctuating street-to-street fighting, the material was more likely than not to fall into German hands? Probing the Bag. A Red Army spokesman said that Warsaw was one of those places "which have to be captured from all sides." Last week Marshal Rokossovsky's army...
...game only lasted four innings because the Varsity had to practice on the diamond being used for the game, but it was considered such a huge success by all who participated that another such game is in the offing...
...only thing dull about Resisting Enemy Interrogation is its title. This latest instructional product of the Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit is as much of a success in its own spy-thriller class as the FMPU's famed Technicolor documentary Memphis Belle (TIME, April...