Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy in Asia. There has been a vagueness in government statements as to what we're doing there," he explained. "There have been a series of relatively optimistic statements by government spokesmen, but it does not seem to me that the policies we are following will necessarily lead to success...
...post-Goldfinger perspective, we can observe the evolution of technique in the Bond series, Ian Fleming wrote novels rich in particular detail, such as the sensation of driving a sports car or sipping vintage wine. In Dr. No, the first film adaptation, these details are carried over with little success, for taste or tactile impressions are difficult to transmit by film...
Maureen Hayes Mansfield, LL.D., wife of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. She has supported and encouraged her husband with such competence that he regards her as "chiefly responsible for the political success of the Mans fields...
SAINT NORBERT COLLEGE The late C. Leo De Orsey, LL.D., tax attorney. Even a partial list of his clients is testimony to his success: Charles Wilson, General Omar Bradley, Edward R. Murrow, Arthur Godfrey, George Preston Marshall, General Curtis LeMay, Ted Williams, Max Factor...
Still, the deed was done. Was it justified? Mecklin thinks not. "A coup d'etat in such circumstances," he writes, "was desperate surgery. The odds against success were comparable with, say, a kidney transplant." And indeed the graft didn't take. Diem's successors proved unable to halt the "relentless deterioration, confirming in dreary succession all the black predictions of those who had opposed the coup...