Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grind. The big success came because a hardy few managed to surmount the follies of the planners. The first settlers-drawn principally from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin-were granted 40 acres apiece, plus 30-year loans (at 3%). The Government had promised concrete foundations and basements for cabins, but foundation timbers were laid in the mud. Families received a grindstone, and 20 sacks of coffee beans were sent in, but axes were scarce, and there were no coffee-grinders...
Others in his government, notably Chief of the General Staff "Tiger" Wang and Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, counseled patience and restraint. The U.S. launched the Warsaw talks, and Chiang, who privately viewed the talks with undisguised distrust, agreed to wait until they had proved a success or had conclusively failed...
...other Ballet Theatre new works, Swedish Choreographer Birgit Cullberg's Miss Julie was an unqualified success. Long popular in Europe, Miss Julie sticks closely to August Strindberg's savage little drama of the same name about a neurotic, highly sexed "half-woman" who seduces her family's butler during a wild celebration of Midsummer Eve. Shamed by the images of her aristocratic ancestors, she forces him to kill her. (In the original she commits suicide.) Danced by Violette Verdy and Erik Bruhn, it successfully translated the purely psychological tensions of the original into movement that was both...
...attack dampened optimism about the growing air and sea supply line to Quemoy. Success in resupplying the artillery-blockaded island and the promise of bigger supply efforts had prompted American officials to predict yesterday that Quemoy could hold out at the present level of supply runs...
...greatest American success has been Circarama. This Walt Disney movie (not cartoons) takes viewers on a 20-minute color tour of the U. S. A., an uninterrupted panoramic scene in a complete circle. The spectators stand inside the circle, look up, and rotate their heads so as not to miss any of the breath-taking trip from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate. Excellent propaganda, even for Americans...