Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategic situation, the civil rights forces are bound to keep coming on, this year, next year, year after next, inexorably. Even now Dick Russell's rearguard is fighting from a line set back more deeply in the Southern heartland than ever before. For all of his brilliant strategic success in breaking the back of the civil rights bill of 1957, some sort of civil rights bill, however scrawny, will almost surely be enacted one day soon, and the fact of the passage may, in the long perspective of history, count for more than the substance...
...success of Kerala has created a new surge of confidence in the Indian Communist Party. Ajoy Ghosh, the party's general secretary, came out of a Politburo meeting in Trivandrum last week smiling happily. "The small party we have had until now," he declared, "is unsuitable. What we need is to develop a truly national character. We want a big party with a big membership." He seemed well on the way to getting just that...
...cause of all this excitement was the sensational success of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, which cruised 69,138 miles, more than half of them submerged, on a single charge of uranium fuel. She never had a breakdown, and her performance forced the Navy's heavy thinkers to rewrite the textbooks of naval warfare...
...Ducts. The most obvious use for nuclear power was to enable submarines to cruise submerged for long periods out of contact with the air, but the success of the Nautilus convinced doubters in the Navy that nearly all ships would benefit too. Nuclear carriers, needing no fuel oil, can carry twice as much fuel for their brood of airplanes. Their nuclear boilers discharge no combustion gases, so their superstructures will be clear of the enormous ducts that clutter oil-burning carriers. This will leave more space for vital radar and airplane-handling equipment...
...Candide (which Guthrie directed this season) not a success? "The show was not quite good enough to justify its pretensions. And the public was not ready to take it seriously when offered up as light comedy...