Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imagination. The members-onetime Deputy Defense Secretary William C. Foster; onetime State Department director of policy planning Paul H. Nitze; Williams College President James Phinney Baxter III; onetime Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett; and Sprague Electric Co. Board Chairman Robert C. Sprague-admitted the probability of substantial enemy success in a missile attack. Said one committeeman: "That leaves the question of what to do against this thing called fallout. Maybe in six months some bright guy will invent a pill we can all take, but he hasn't yet. The only thing we have is the thing...
...against this background that we must appreciate the impact upon America of the launching of the two Russian satellites. " Americans, he said, took the Russian success as "a blow in the heartland. It will be a long time indeed, before the American people can be brought to forget what they regard as a deep humiliation." So saying, Nye the observer waddled, without fear, from his typewriter...
...nation's most popular sport experienced a renaissance at Harvard last year, and appears likely to maintain or even add to its newly-won success this season...
After two frustrating years spent with teams neither able to live up to expectations nor able to win more than one-third of their contests, Coach Floyd Wilson last year achieved greater success than anyone had dared hope for. Included in his team's 19-9 season were seven victories in the last nine games, two against Princeton, and a 7-7 league record good for a fifth place Ivy League finish...
...Mantle is a Yankee, and the Yankees are the "power elite" of the baseball world. They are the biggest; they have more money, better organization and more pennants. The Yankees win and the American dream of success influences even sports writers. A Yankee has won the Most Valuable Player Award each of the last four years and twelve times since...