Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restored to world councils, his society surprisingly stable and democratic, the German no longer lives just to work; he works to live-and to forget the grim existence before 1948, the year West Germany's struggling economy was remodeled and started on the road to today's success. After this Economic Year One, Germans spent their money in distinct waves. First came the food wave. A year or two later. Germans went on a clothing spree. As the hunger for these basic things was satisfied, demand focused on household goods, then on motorcycles and cars, later on travel...
...Stage Manager, the instrument by which he creates the largely invisible, but believable world of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, must be impeccable in both manner and dialogue. Edward Finnegan, the Stage Manager in the Charles Players' production is all this and more, and most of the play's success can be attributed to his well-timed gestures of hat and pipe and his thoroughly "North of Boston" accent...
...since they gave women the right to vote back in the United States' dark ages, the so-called weaker sex has clamored for more and better education as one of the necessities of the New American Woman. Radcliffe College stands today as one of the many monuments to the success which has attended her quest...
...speed up the process of turning control over to native churchmen. Just back from a two-month tour of African missions, Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles said last week that the whole future of Christianity in that part of the world depends on the speed and success of the handover. "We have failed in that we have tried to keep too much control by running 'white missions,' " said Kennedy. "We need to train more natives so that the missions can become more of the people. The Christian church must be an indigenous thing, or it will...
...first, Susskind did well with original shows-The Rainmaker, Other People's Houses-but soon he found that there was less and less room to gamble. Sponsors wanted every effort to be a success, so the titles became more familiar-The Winslow Boy, The Prince and the Pauper, Pinocchio. Off TV, he sometimes tried the unusual: his movie, Edge of the City, was an artistic success, and his current Broadway hit, Rashomon, though based on a successful Japanese movie, is an occasionally baffling exercise in fantasy. But on TV, clients are cautious, and "you have an inevitable compromise between...