Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success one day last week, Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp* announced that, by official U.S. estimate, Russia keeps between eight and 14 million people in slave labor camps. Semen Tsarapkin, Russia's representative to ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council), coolly ignored the charge; no one else seemed to care either. The world had read too many statistics of death and misery...
...Though initially reluctant, 90% of Britain's dentists and 86% of her physicians had now joined the plan. "Had they not come in," Bevan declared triumphantly, "I should not have had a deficit, but a surplus. I should have been praised by the Opposition for being a financial success-but I should have been a failure as a Minister of Health...
Said Mengelberg: "I am not like many other conductors ... I do not envy anyone success. If someone tells me there is a conductor who is superior to Mengelberg, I bow humbly." After a moment's thought, he added: "But whenever I hear that person's performance, I simply cannot understand what makes people think he might be better than...
...Impressed by the success of cut-rate coach fares, Northwest Airlines said it would ask CAB approval for a coach fare of $96.80 from New York to Seattle (regular fare: $157.85), slightly lower than even nonscheduled lines fare...
Jordan based his reversal of position on the fact that the profits of the affair will go for the fund. The Student Council, in deciding on the Somerset, expressed hope that the lure of a non-Agassiz dance would make it a greater success. Only five Council members voted against the proposal...