Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily Bread. But even in the inebriation of success, Russia's little man could not forget the harshness of his daily life. When he thought of victory, he also thought of hlyeb-bread, sustenance. For in Russia today, the sharp pangs of hunger come as regularly as the dawn...
Says Blai: "Discipline does it. The Army is teaching Americans discipline and control, the foundation for success in art, or in any other sphere...
Naturally an independent force tends to follow its own course: "It is reluctant to work with or share its responsibility with other organizations." Yarnell's solution is simple: "Since the basic principle of success in war is unity of command under leaders trained in, and selected for, their knowledge and skill in the use of all arms, it seems logical that there should be the same unity in the General Staffs...
...price of such protection might prove too high, in terms of success of the plan. Under the new gold requirements, a dead-broke, gold-barren postwar nation, such as a reconstituted Austria or Czecho-Slovakia, would find it impossible to participate in the plan, unless the U.S. lends them the necessary gold, in effect underwrites the fund from its $22 billion hoard...
...When in 1941 President Roosevelt "with evident satisfaction" called the U.S. policy of shipping scrap iron and oil to Japan a "success...