Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent complaints from Democratic Governors, the President was disarmingly frank about the problems created by the avalanche of social legislation enacted under his aegis. He allowed that his Great Society "required trial and error, and it has produced both." And he averred with unwonted humility: "As we learn through success and failure, we are changing our strategy, and we are trying to improve our tactics. . . . Where there have been mistakes we will try very hard to correct them...
...guess you get more attention when you're going out than when you're coming in." Not so, Senator. At a reception that afternoon, Brooke was overwhelmed by up to 5,000 well-wishers-Negroes and whites alike-who flocked to welcome him and wish him success...
Unproductive Clichés. One key to the ultimate success of this process of partnership and interpenetration is the business community. Only recently, a paranoid distrust poisoned relations between the private and public sectors of the nation. There remain quite a few holdouts in both camps, but the instances of cooperation between the two are growing, notably in the space program and in the development of new educational tools...
...speech before the American Football Coaches Association in Hous ton, the New York Stock Exchange's retiring president, Keith Funston, 56. did a bit of recruiting for the bulls and the bears. "The values so essential to success on the gridiron are highly prized in business," Funston evangelized, inviting the nation's college-football players to try out for slots in the securities business. Like ideal businessmen, he said, football players are possessed of self-confidence, imagination, leadership and competitive spirit. Funston had better watch out. As a rule, the lads are also big and mean and pretty...
...London recording of Semiramide, for example, most of the dazzling trills and turns, runs and roulades sung by Joan Sutherland were not written by Rossini but by her husband Conductor Richard Bonynge. La Stupenda's enormous success with bel canto embroidery, now emulated by a long and impressive roster of young singers underscores the most significant change in opera singing in 150 years...