Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking to beg Mao Tse-tung to be less brutal. Unsuccessful in Peking, Ghosh went back to Moscow to plead for help there, and last week completed his circle tour by scurrying home to New Delhi to try to hold the party together. Best measure of his success so far: postponement of a party central-committee meeting scheduled for this week, presumably to allow time for tempers to cool...
...binges of modern times. Proudly proclaimed Wife Beatrice, who did not accompany Behan on his summer pub safari: "He's been off the gargle for a week or two. He's been very good." In a Piccadilly bar, Behan hoisted just one wee nip and bellowed: "To success!" Clinking glasses with him, Beatrice responded: "Success to abstinence!" Then Behan lumbered off to the theater to catch a performance ..of his London hit, The Hostage. At play's end, to cries of "Author!" he took the stage, smiled with clear-eyed modesty, drew a big hand by saying...
...neck and passed a silver tube into her windpipe to provide extra oxygen and speed drainage. Next day Jeanett went into unexplained spasms. Adrenaline-like drugs, and her own vitality, pulled her through that crisis. Last week, with infinite relief, the University of Oregon doctors pronounced the operation a success. Their greatest immediate danger past, both babies were doing well...
...Dartmouth game, he prepared the first of his famous college medleys. The next week Anderson, pleased with the success of the medley, presented another for the Army game. He took a tune from Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," added some well-known melodies from Ivy League songs, and produced "Wintergreen for President." This number, the nearest thing to a Band theme song, is repeatedly requested by audiences...
...change led to the expansion of NSA's international activities in the early fifties. A major factor in the success of the international program was the new respectibility which NSA had acquired. A large grant of money by the Ford Foundation testified to the stable character of the Association, and opened the doors to later grants by all the major foundations...