Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holds no degree, William Francis Gibbs is a profound skeptic. Young Son Francis is an enthusiastic horseman, but Father Gibbs hates the sight of horseflesh. Said a member of his family: "He always suspects they're ready to bite him." In the same way he is leary of success. When a man begins to think of himself as successful, according to the Gibbsian philosophy, "he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes...
...buffoonery and isolationist leanings. They lambasted him for failure to spend more than one-fourth of his time on his Governor's duties, for neglecting to call a special session of the legislature to vote funds for civilian defense. Governor Heil, who has made a big success as a manufacturer of everything from oil burners to snowplows (and is proud of it), ignored his critics, boasted that he was "meting out justice to ma and pa." He won his party's nomination easily. Probable November result: his three opponents (Democratic, Progressive and Socialist) will divide the anti-Heil...
Stalingrad's fate depended upon the success of such fighters. There were no natural defenses. Between the Don and Volga elbows, a strip from 45 to 80 miles wide, the plain rises imperceptibly from the west to east until it reaches about 240 ft. above sea level, then falls away sharply in a few miles to the Volga, which at Stalingrad is 40 ft. below sea level.* The few ravines dividing the plain are knee-deep brooks. There are no forests such as help to screen Moscow. The Nazis had merely to cross the plain between two rivers. Sprawling...
Biggest-and still unsolved-problem is labor. Many department-store clerks are young, low-paid and itching to get into war work (or are playing hide & seek with the draft board). Complained one Manhattan storekeeper: "We are using every means to secure additional help, but with little success. . . . It is like getting stabbed in the back to watch business walk out the door simply because it is not possible to get sufficient salespeople...
Millais' greatest success came in 1885, when he painted Bubbles, a portrait of his little grandson blowing soap bubbles. Pears' Soap bought Bubbles outright, used it as an advertisement. Result: Bubbles became one of the most famous of British paintings; Pears' became one of the world's biggest soap firms...