Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back rhetoric with substantive help at crucial points has also been well illustrated in the Congo quagmire, which since July 1960 has threatened to draw in the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. as direct adversaries. Each time considerable Russian involvement was needed to give Soviet clients a chance at success, the Communists backed down. This has been a pattern from the fall...
...field as well as communicate knowledge of that field to others. It is obviously difficult to populate a majority of any faculty with such ideal professors. But both Yale and Harvard continue to strive to that end and, in my view, with approximately the same degree of success...
...Barton joined Roy S. Durstine to found the ad agency that later became B.B.D. & O., helped ensure its success with such snappy, to-the-point pitches as the one he wrote for G.E.: "Any woman who is doing any household task that a little electric motor can do is working for 3? an hour. Human life is too precious to be sold at the price of 3? an hour...
...South Viet Nam as they try to build a nation, and to try to bring enough pressure and pain to bear on the Communists to force them to come to the negotiating table-or quietly de-escalate the war. All of these aims require a continuing U.S. momentum of success on the battlefields, and of late that momentum unfortunately has flagged. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker frankly told McNamara: "The enemy offensive has been blunted but not halted. Hanoi seems determined to continue the war in anticipation that we will get tired of the heavy burdens we are carrying...
Islam had no priests, only "teachers," and virtually no theology. Crucial to its later stagnation was the fact it had no analogy to Christ's martyrdom, no sense of suffering in the Jewish pattern that might have prepared Moslems for adversity. Islam was an instant success. In the power vacuum left by the disintegration of the last remnants of Roman and Byzantine order, Mohammed's hard-riding followers quickly achieved one of the world's greatest military conquests. Armed with fast cavalry and such innovations as the stirrup (giving lancers leverage), Arabs swept east to India...