Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foster Gunnison believes that success in prefabricated housing, which has baffled many a man before him, can be achieved...
...previous wives, their five children and his present wife's three children by a former marriage, for a Christmas banquet each year. It seems to come off amicably. Besides running his 1,050-acre plantation like a patriarch, he has dabbled in politics with more expense than success. In 1942, he roamed the state providing lavish free meals and exhibiting his flowing locks and friendly grin to the populace, came within 200 votes of winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator. Since then he has established an anti-New Deal paper called the Jefferson Republican, which he sends monthly...
Said Stalin on May Day morning: "Tens of millions of Soviet peoples have been delivered from Fascist slavery. . . . The successes of the Red Army were made possible by correct strategy, high morale, first-rate Soviet war equipment. ... A considerable contribution to our success has been made by our great allies. ... To rid our country and the countries allied with us from the danger of enslavement, we must pursue the wounded German beast ... to its lair. . . . This problem . . . can be solved by means of coordinated blows from the east. by our troops and from the west by troops of our allies...
...year-old ex-soldier had other views about his experience. "We [soldiers]," he said, "have learned that whether a man accepts from Fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from Aspiration her axe and cord and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart." But when Emerson talked to him passionately of the work of reconstruction that lay ahead, young Holmes felt no crusader's impulse. "Merely, he desired to use his brain, drive it to its fullest .capacity...
...mile-long Moffat Tunnel the radio conked out. But otherwise the first two-way FM radio communication link between engine and caboose was a success. It was tested last week on a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad heavy freight, making a 1,140-mile round trip between Denver and Salt Lake City...