Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish you success. ... I am certain that you will succeed, and that once again you will have proved that TIME is one of the most constructive influences in our times...
...public was only given to understand that somehow the regular Department of Agriculture appropriation had got hung up in Congress, but something far bigger than that was going on. At stake was the success of the nation's entire wartime food program, not to mention the possibility of entirely unnecessary and artificial inflation of food prices. At stake for a relatively few top-drawer U.S. farmers were several hundred million dollars of velvet...
...broke through mines and nets blocking the Gulf and resumed raiding. Sweden last month resumed convoying. As of this week no German coal or coke had reached Sweden for ten days and Swedish papers warned that none could be expected for another ten. The United Nations had scored some success in hitting at Hitler's vital supply lines...
...agency. The Seventy-seventh Congress has failed us in our war effort. It is up to the people to see that the Seventy-eighth is of different make. For the number of dead-duck obstructionists bagged by the season's windup in November will unfailingly determine the future success of America's war effort...
Rommel's success in the recent Battle of Libya began with a miscalculation. He sent his tanks south in a wide sweep around Bir Hachėim, to outflank the British line, but his intended surprise was detected, his columns were attacked by superior forces. At that point Rommel was worsted and he began to extemporize. While his engineers cut a gap in the heavily-mined Ain el-Gazala line, he distracted the British with various false movements, ringed his gap with protective artillery, then pushed his forces on through...