Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia. "Certainly no one is more deeply interested than American parents in the success of Russian arms over Germany. But it is also true that the whole character of the Pacific war would change if the U.S. had access to the Pacific coastal area of Russia. . . . It is a major factor in the whole Pacific picture...
...President during the week reported that he had never been in a better, brighter, more beaming mood. He seemed to feel that if an election were held tomorrow he would sweep the Union. With Neapolitans welcoming U.S. troops, with Allied arms sweeping on everywhere in a high tide of success and popularity, it was a great thing to the President of the fabulous U.S.A...
Hitler's Problems. With this battered army, Hitler can, and will, launch local attacks. But he cannot pit his 220 Nazi and satellite divisions against the Red Army's estimated 275 wellarmed, well-led divisions with any chance of success. Today, Russia's might and the Allied threat in the west make upon him two stern demands: i) He must establish a strong defense line somewhere on the Eastern Front, and 2) he must hoard his precious reserves of men and materiel...
...planes (see p. 20), MacArthur held complete and vitally effective command of the air. It was a climax to MacArthur's New Guinea campaign, which according to Brigadier General Charles Willoughby, MacArthur's intelligence chief, had been fought with "pinchpenny precise planning." The margin of success was always so small that MacArthur could never "afford to be wrong...
Thanks to the versatility of wry, doom-voiced Senator Ford, cozy, white-haired Harry Hershfield, and "Little Joe" Laurie Jr., this incredibly simple formula is a funny fiscal success. Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet foots the bills, and the three jokesters freely admit that they never anticipated making so much money out of Joe Millers. Sample...