Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syed Nurul Alam, lecturer in Economics at Decca University in Pakistan, attributed his country's success to its policy of "to live and let others live." This slogan, he asserted, has allowed his divided nation to set up two capitals, establish a stable banking and currency system, and build up its industry...
...argument was a sharp one, but far more damaging to U.S. prestige was the position of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Plainly miffed at the implicit U.S. flouting of the U.N. observers, he pronounced the observers' operation a "complete success...
...officers hatched the plot, only an hour was necessary to carry it out, and only three key assassinations made it complete. So swiftly last week fell Iraq, long celebrated as the West's strongest Arab bastion in the Middle East. The details of this remarkable coup, whose success surprised even the plotters, became clear only little by little last week, as the facts were slowly disentangled from impassioned propaganda and confused accounts...
...gayest party girl of them all, Elsa Maxwell, 75, confided to Paris reporters something she has long brayed to everyone in earshot at her favored Manhattan watering holes: her credo for frivolous success. Chunks from the eight-lump manifesto, in its current version: "I have developed the fine art of choosing my enemies. Everyone loves truth but nobody says it except me. I firmly believe the world is my oyster. I stay away from geniuses; the men I see most often are Orson Welles, Cole Porter and Aly Khan...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success (TIME, July...