Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk attacks on France, preparing for the misty days and long winter nights ahead, and it was only a matter of time until a two-way offensive could be mounted from Britain and Italy. But, in the light of recent experience, airmen were no longer willing to measure the success or failure of their campaign by their ability or inability to knock out Germany this year. Their maximum hope, but not their certainty, was that President Roosevelt meant what he said in his Congressional message...
...endman in the days of the late Lew Dockstader and George Primrose. Affably, Oldtimer O'Brien sat through the show, went backstage afterward and made a speech to the assembled company. "Any show that had the Rockettes in it," remarked he, with dry tact, "would be a success...
Because of the proximity of the two dances, and that of the civilian Houses, the attendance, and therefore success, of each group would be affected. The Committee figured that since the Freshmen and V-12 were both having dances through their respective residences, the combined affair could wait until next term when it would probably have a bigger turnout...
...Successful" was the Navy's description of the raid. Said the Navy: hits were made on ground installations and three cargo ships; a transport was left afire and sinking, another was damaged. But if Tokyo's report that 18 bombers participated-was correct-the U.S. had paid a high percentage for success. The Navy admitted that four bombers were lost due to enemy action, that six others, "failed to return...
...success, Publisher Délano could thank his own publishing formula: the satirical laugh gets more results than the solemn warning, the prank is more effective than the preachment. Topaze is never really nice to anybody. But neither is it ever very nasty. Sticking almost strictly to politics, it gigs Chilean politicos with biting irony or refined ridicule, has deftly wrecked many a political career. Two examples...