Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of official policy of avoiding contests where the possibility of success is dim, it is gratifying to salute the two Radcliffe dormitories which have so wisely declined to enter Glamour magazine's contest for America's best dressed college girls...
...believing an honorable death preferable to the senility they saw on The Advocate. And to say that The Editor is on probation and that Audience is a junior Phi Beta Kappa is to play with words. Edmunds says that because Identity is published by an offset process, the success of the printing job depends on the poet's typewriter; if he studied printing, and that would be a very good place for The Advocate to start, he would learn that the poems of Identity are not typed by each poet's own machine, but rather, by the people...
...forefront of Macmillan's mind, however, were the domestic political advantages of a mission to Moscow. Recent polls show his Tory Party trailing Labor in popularity for the first time in eight months; unemployment, which stands at 531,000, has hurt the Conservatives. Any kind of a diplomatic success would give him a talking point should he decide to call a general election before the end of the year. In the House of Commons the universal good-natured reaction to news of Macmillan's Moscow trip was expressed by Labor M.P. Jean Mann. Said Mrs. Mann...
...marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous by his coy shenanigans in the ring and out. "The queens are passe now," says Columnist Jimmy Cannon, but wrestlers are still getting away with their hammy histrionics, still faking pain, anguish and angry violence with steady success...
...Anna blithely set out to recoup by writing a play. Fashion, her maiden effort, ran a respectable string of performances at the Park in 1845, and launched Author Mowatt on a heady career as an actress. It also gave the U.S. its first home-grown play of any success...