Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, adapted from his own play by the late Clifford Odets just before he died, turns its original hero, Joe Bonaparte, an Italian boy torn between the warring worlds of art (represented by a possible career as a concert violinist) and commercial success (prizefighing) into Joe Wellington, a Negro with a racial chip weighing heavily on his shoulder and a desire to "show them who the hell I am." This change entails the loss of the conflict which informed and strengthened the entire texture of the earlier version. Only Joe's father remains, a stock conscience-figure who comments...
...slipping into the north on the ground and by air. "I myself dropped special-forces units into North Viet Nam," boasted Ky. Actually, his disclosures added little to what was already known. The raids were begun under Diem, with U.S. approval, and apparently are continuing sporadically but with scant success...
...vigilance to keep the newer generation of Chinese leaders from going soft, as the West hopes they will. Concluded Mao's testament: "A very long period of time is needed to decide who will win the struggle between socialism and capitalism. Several decades won't do it. Success requires anywhere from one to several centuries...
...invention of a double-nozzle spray gun that shoots fiber and liquid resin simultaneously, thus creating an easy and inexpensive method of spraying fiber glass onto molds. One new product, in fact, almost wrecked the industry. Boats made of plastic reinforced with fiber glass became a quick success, and before long, dozens of boat companies were building them. The supply of fiber glass got so scarce that it had to be allocated while the firms rushed new production facilities. Unfortunately, many of the boat builders were inexperienced and undercapitalized; when they floundered, the fiber glass companies were left with excess...
...Victor Coste, discovered in the mid-1800s the secret of collecting larvae and raising seed, making it possible to grow oysters in waters where for various reasons they are unable to breed. The oysters of Locmariaquer, for instance, are transplanted three times before they are shipped to market. The success of the process depends on what the French call tromper I'huître ("fooling the oysters"), an ingenious method of making the oyster clean itself out and preventing it from "yawning" and losing its liquid when it is exposed...