Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there be no voting in the 19th Assembly until Russia pays at least one-third of its arrears. As a result, the Assembly has so far been idly discussing matters requiring no vote, while behind the scenes a search for a compromise goes on-thus far with scant success...
...turned out excellent books on the fighting. He had honed his style with extensive reading: Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Macaulay's History of England, Plato's Republic, Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Aristotle's Politics. By 1899, he had achieved such success as author and correspondent that he resigned his commission, went off to cover Britain's war against the Boer settlers in South Africa. His exploits in and out of Boer prison camps were so dramatic that in 1900 he returned to England to find himself a national hero...
...test was apparently a complete success. It proved that the new capsule can survive the critical strains of launching and reentry. The only trouble came five minutes and 15 seconds after launch, when an electrical overload opened a circuit breaker and cut off all power in the Flight Control Center for 47 seconds. This unglamorous mishap, equivalent to blowing a household fuse, stopped communication with the capsule, and might have been serious if astronauts had been aboard...
...rowing clubs feared that the attempt to take over the NAAO foreshadowed an attempt to take over the United States Olympic Rowing Committee in the wake of the recent success of the Vesper Rowing Club entry in the Olympics...
...turns out anywhere as good as our meetings have been so far, the weekend will be an unprecedented success," Demuth said. "On the other hand," he added, "if meetings continue to be as fun as they have been, there may be no Jubilee...