Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, no team that compiles a 13-8 record overall, wins the Greater Boston League championship, and defeats both Princeton and Yale, could be called a failure or anything like it. Superficially, indeed, the season has been quite a success.... But the memory of those five losses in crucial Eastern League games is not easily effaced. It is hard to escape the feeling that things might have turned out a lot better than they actually...
...land, across the Atlantic. An eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor in the U.S., he won his greatest success in Europe, became the idol of Paris cafe jazz buffs, who named 40 or more children after him. High point of a flamboyant career was his 1951 marriage to German-born Elizabeth Ziegler. Ten jazz bands played wedding music; flocks of jazz fans sang and danced in the streets; doves...
...source of business failure, a fact to which wildcatters deliberately blind themselves. They disregard the unfulfilled dreams and broken lives that lie buried at the bottom of the staggering total of 300,000 dry holes drilled in America and think only of those who, despite every difficulty, persevered to success...
...Bunky Knudsen, the rewards of success are a $100,000 annual salary, a sprawling, twelve-room colonial farmhouse, with two tennis courts and a swimming pool, on 40 acres in suburban Birmingham, Mich., where he lives with his wife Florence and their four teenage children. Knudsen does not spend much time there. His work day is ten hours long, and part of every evening is spent slamming Pontiacs, a new one each day, around the roughest roads he can find. Knudsen, who fidgets when he hears his success mentioned, likes to recall one of the few pieces of advice...
Kissinger is the author of "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy." Lynn is the author of "The Dream of Success...