Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt a family obligation to run because a young, politically promising cousin had been killed in the war. His personal diffidence won him respect in the House; his shrewd advice on business affairs won him esteem in the City. At the Ministry of Agriculture he managed to achieve a success in that "graveyard of future Prime Ministers...
...Faustino Pérez alibied the "minor setback" in the capital as caused mostly by "delayed public reaction," insisted: "Our units are intact." Broadcasting from the clandestine rebel station, Castro unleashed a farrago of nonsensical victory claims, e.g., "There is no rebel patrol that has not scored a resounding success." He added an unlikely atrocity tale: "In the Sierra Maestra peasants' huts are being bombed with napalm that came from the United States...
...hotel-jamming party for a few (1,000) friends, who cheered as Author Christie presented the theater with a gold-and-silver mousetrap. Murmured she on the triumph: "I suppose it's just like making sauce. Sometimes you get all the ingredients just right and you have a success...
...experiment was a snowballing success. Chaplain Hager's fellow officers avoided him at first, but soon began dropping into his tiny office at headquarters to talk over their problems. He has helped to keep at least three police families from breaking up, and prompted a dozen police officers to join churches. In municipal court Hager sits next to Judge James McWhorter every morning so that he can prepare for follow-up work with defendants. Among the winos of Summers Street he is a symbol of hope and help, has managed to rehabilitate a dozen drunks...
Like Deathwatch, Lear has been great fun--but has lost money. That fact is the least of Mr. Eyre's worries: "I'm sorry it hasn't been such a popular success for the sake of the people who've worked on the show." He chalks it all up to experience, for he plans, right now at least, to go ahead on his own in the New York theatre after his graduation...