Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning politics this year. To me, one of the most promising features of Mr. Willkie's candidacy is that the Old Guard is opposed to him. In more "normal" political times the evasive, nonconstructive but "politically astute" maneuvers of Dewey, Bricker and the Old Guard might achieve success with voters, but this will not be a normal year...
Republicans, working Harlem with success for the first time in years, heard better explanations. What had the hamstrung Fair Employment Practices Commission really done for the Negro worker? How fair a break were Negroes getting in the Armed Services? Republicans heard of many a Negro serviceman returning in anger to Harlem, there to spread dissatisfaction. Often the returned Negro soldier was angry at segregation in Army camps, at the Navy's unabashed racial snobbishness, at the Negro's "token" representation on the fighting fronts. The Negroes who helped elect a Republican Governor last November in Kentucky...
...destroyers swung broadside to the low-lying coast and sounded a compelling reveille with the barking of their 5-in. guns. Boats crowded with green-clad men crawled like bugs toward the shore. This was no landing on an enemy beach saturated by bombardment; success this time depended on surprise...
...Resume the Advance." Two days after the landing, MacArthur announced from his headquarters that the initial operation had been a "reconnaissance in force" but that because of its unexpected success it was now "being developed into complete occupation." Reinforcements were rushed to Momote airfield-just in time to stop the Jap's heaviest onslaught. At week's end another communiqué indicated that Momote airfield might be in the bag. Enemy "dead & wounded are estimated at 3.000. . . . We lost 61 killed and 244 wounded." Said General MacArthur: "Our troops are preparing to resume the advance...
...Narva, some 680 miles to the north, the Russians hoped to score their next major success. After weeks of hammering, they had crossed the Narova River, breached the defenses put up by the Germans in their flight from Leningrad. Russian naval officers spoke of being in Estonia's Tallinn within a month...