Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrific task: it meant fighting and building his way through hundreds of miles of trackless country, across mountains and through jungles. Last week, within 50 miles of Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch-i-nah), the goal whose capture would make his campaign a success, the Japs made a savage attempt to stop...
More Men? Now the fact seems clear that in the original landing at Anzio too few troops were employed for the depth of penetration necessary to make this flanking move a success...
...Ruddle would not call it cramming. Says he: "We study our pupils carefully and give special coaching on the weakest subjects. No tutor ever has more than four or five pupils so that he can give them all individual attention. . . . This is the secret of our success...
...phenomenon of Roundy's success constantly expands. Madison believes he can make or break a University of Wisconsin football coach ("Four football coaches were going to run me out of town but I'm still here and nobody knows where they are"). He averages more than three nights a week as a speaker, last year turned his rugged ribbing on the State Legislature...
Rockefeller Helps. Siqueiros claims that his tour has been a thumping success, stresses the fact that the greatest help came from Nelson Rockefeller's coordinators of inter-American affairs. Only the Mexican press attacked Siqueiros as a gangster and a fugitive from justice. Says the muralist resignedly: "No one is a prophet in his own land...