Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High, was to go to college. Then father went stony broke...
...Five voluntarily curb their veto power in the Security Council. To the little nations, who had spent a year drafting the resolution, it was the most important business on the agenda. New Zealand's Sir Carl Berendsen cried: "I would give my right hand for the success of this organization...
Vincent de Paul goes to the village of Chatillonles-Dombes, which has been without a priest for ten years. His success there (he organizes a mission to care for the poor) draws the attention of Richelieu, who makes him Chaplain of the Royal Galleys. As a Court official, however, the priest feels out of touch with the unfortunates he wants so passionately to serve. He gives up all of his possessions, and later, convinced that the "miserables" need food more than religious instruction, founds the famous St. Lazare mission in Paris...
...with being: (a) a power-mad bureaucracy (b) a giant Democratic boondoggle (c) a violation of states' rights, and other things too horrible to mention. Needless to say, the TVA proved to be none of these evils and in fact it brought the Middle South back to life. Its success started citizens in other areas of the nation thinking seriously about more Valley Authorities, but thus far the mercenaries of the special interest lobbies have been able to route all other TVA-like plans to an early grave. Now the lobbies are desperately trying to sink their hooks into Truman...
...Crabbe is unwilling to depend entirely on water events for financial success, and has therefore larded the production with a number of excellent vaudeville acts, including a juggler, four acrobats, a muscle act, and impersonator, and the traditional animal performers. It was a wise decision...