Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to thank TIME for bringing us something besides the humdrum news of war, the fight for production, and self-sacrifice. These little success stories just buoy us up, make suffering easier, and make it all worth fighting...
While cries of patriotism were rising to a new crescendo and Dorothy Lamour was in our midst selling War Bonds for victory, the primary elections were considered unimportant. Yesterday's vote was the lightest in recent history. The success of the Bond sales was excellent, but a larger turnout at the polls would have been equally encouraging. For the handling and the management of money that people so willingly contribute to the nation through taxes and bonds is more important than the general reaction shows...
Thin, nervous, ambitious Don Ramón Serrano Suñer found the road to success was comparatively easy. While his fat-bottomed brother-in-law, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was crushing Spanish Loyalists, Serrano skulked behind the lines, building up the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista. As head Falangista, Serrano controlled Spain's sole political party with a claimed membership of some 2,500,000. As head of the Ministry of Press and Propaganda he controlled what all Spaniards (supposedly) read and thought. As Minister of the Interior he controlled what they ate and when they went to prison. When...
...Fiske trouped through Texas "under canvas"-because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic once wrote: "Fiske in the '90s was probably the only manager in the American theater who had ever read a book...
Even concentrated there the defenses were not enough. Last week the R.A.F. kept at the Ruhr, hit Saarbrüken (pop. 131,000) with 200-300 planes in what the conservative British Air Ministry called a raid "of outstanding success." Another night the heavy bombers swung farther east to Karlsruhe, on the upper Rhine, unloaded 200 or more bomb bays 450 miles from home, on one of the Reich's great locomotive-building centers. Still another night, Bremen, one of the targets of the three 1,000-plane raids of early summer, caught it hot & heavy...