Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remains convinced that American policy is fundamentally hostile toward his government. In response, he seems to feel that stirring up trouble elsewhere will divert American attention and at the same time gain him political allies wherever Cuban troops achieve military success...
...form or another, such harrowing scenes are played out again and again each day across the U.S. Imbued as the medical establishment is with the idea of fighting at all costs for the prolongation of life, it is naturally geared to hope of success rather than the fact of failure. Once it becomes apparent that an illness is terminal, conventional medicine often seems unequipped, untrained and even unwilling to deal with death. It is mainly nursing homes-which are often dreary, costly and isolated from the rest of society -that seem ready to shoulder that inevitable human burden. As British...
...promoted secession by Katanga, which contained most of their assets. (The Katangan rebels who took Kolwezi two weeks ago are the remnants and descendants of the losing side in the civil war that followed secession.) United Nations "peacekeeping" forces, with U.S. support, also played a key role in the success of the coup against the Lumumba government, holding government forces in check while allowing Mobutu, then head of the army and considered "safe" by the Belgians, free rein to take over. There is evidence, revealed by former CIA officer John Stockwell, that the CIA had a hand in Lumumba...
...cultured Germans, Henry Louis was raised in a complacent atmosphere. But he was born with sand under his skin, and the works of Nietzsche exerted an irresistible appeal. Mencken became a believer in the Übermensch, a scoffer at the great unwashed. Like Oscar Wilde, he made a success by reversing traditions. To believers, he played the village atheist. To prohibitionists, he was a beery provocateur. To the U.S. at large, he was an intellectual who saw culture only in Europe. "The average citizen of a democracy," he announced, "is a goose-stepping ignoramus ... The average democratic politician, of whatever...
...legislature picked Yankee Doodle-after replacing the word girls with folks. Widely criticized years ago for ending a session in which the designation of the Great Dane was its signal achievement, the Pennsylvania legislature this year bent its energies to the selection of a State Cat (alley cat favored). Success would create the possibility, as one statehouse joker put it, "of the State Dog chasing the State Cat up the State Tree [hemlock...