Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. Czech Director Jiří Menzel's poignant film is a series of contradictions: a tragic comedy, a peaceful war movie, a success story of a failure...
...remained defiant. In a speech addressed to "King Lincoln," he cried: "Defeat, debt, taxation, sepulchers: these are your trophies! In vain the people gave you treasure and the soldier yielded up his life. The war for the Union is a most bloody and costly failure. What has been our success? Let the dead at Fredericksburg and Vicksburg answer." Vallandigham was arrested, tried and convicted of disloyalty. The authorities were ready to imprison him when Lincoln intervened and softened the sentence to deportation to the South. With habeas corpus suspended, thousands of other dissenters were arrested...
...least some rudiments of an organization. Yet the government ruled that each candidate must run on his own without party or associations, and must pay for his campaign out of his own pocket or through private financial connections. Since a two-week campaign with any hope of success would cost at least $50,000, that seems to rule out anyone who is not wealthy. As a clincher, the government requires all candidates to swear "adhesion" to Franco's Falange...
...reason for their lack of success, and the astounding performance of the 1967 Red Sox, is as hackneyed as it is true. The old Sox were cursed by a losing mentality. So what if you finish eighth or ninth, whether you win this game or lose it? It's not going to help anybody's paycheck. The players had one overriding interest: themselves. Such self-interest obviously hurt the team, and it puts incredible pressure on the individual players. They are fighting a battle alone...
...Jerry Adair, journeyman third base-man, who chewed tobacco and hunched over the plate in arthritic concentration. One hesitates to say it, but the team was Andrews and Adair. In the mixture of their youth and age, the identity of their concentration, lay the secret of Red Sox success...