Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then the President gave Westy the second oak leaf cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal-awarded after the Tet offensive. Resor declared that the U.S. effort in Viet Nam is on the "threshold of complete success." In response, Westy said his forces had "denied to the enemy a battlefield victory" and "arrested the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia." Then he saluted the Commander-in-Chief, and Lady Bird asked everybody into the Blue Room for coffee and cookies...
...flashing silver badges. After he left, they scrawled kindly father figures. To woo teenagers, almost always the troublemakers in ghetto disturbances, the L.A.P.D. has experimentally hired twelve youths for help on such minor but ticklish assignments as mediating family disputes. The program so far has shown encouraging signs of success...
Next week economics department chairman Otto Eckstein will meet with the leaders of this summer's experiment to discuss the first results. If the project has met with success, economics 1 may next year become the first Harvard course to offer instruction by computer...
Scholars may very likely be scandalized by Kahn's breathtaking production. But then they too are among the people Shakespeare was satirizing in this play. Disraeli had a point when he proclaimed, "Success is the child of Audacity...
...Peter Jaszi attributed to Welles "a single overriding concern: to make the text, both the words and the visual images implicit in them, wholly and completely his own, and thereby to make them ours." This can, with A Midsummer Night's Dream, be said of Mayer, and his success is very much our gain...