Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winner's bus" attitude. Like bees to honey, journalists flock to a winner; it is both glamorous and exciting to herald the victor's progress. Crouse suggests that this feeling unconsciously prompts reporters to fashion their subject into a winner, to write stories that too exuberantly predict his success. Sometimes they are left in the lurch, like the disillusioned reporters who roseately optimized Muskie's rortune but suddenly discovered that the bus had run aground without warning...
President Bok accepted Brooks's resignation and said, "The entire University is in your debt for all the years of splendid service you have given us as dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. We will greatly miss your valuable counsel and wish you every success in your teaching and research...
Lelouch spends a good deal of this movie making fun of his first success, A Man and a Woman--he has a roomful of convicts hurling hisses at it on New Year's Eve. Now you've got to credit him for not taking that first financial and prestigious success as artistic encouragement. And Happy New Year is a better movie--which isn't saying much--but not too different. It's as if he tried here to penetrate to the man and woman the first movie sloshed over with sentiment. And he ended up with just as pretty...
PHILADELPHIA--The Palestra in Philadelphia is a Mecca for basketball enthusiasts, and the ancient snakepit seems to inspire the Harvard basketball team, only to snatch success away in the waning moments of a game. On Saturday night the pattern was repeated as Harvard lost to Penn, 55-53, in the last second of play...
...guards' union gained the political support of the Boston Herald American, which used the issue as a source of sensational stories. The furlough program, for example, depended on the voluntary return of the prisoners and had a 98.6 per cent success. In the few instances when prisoners did run off, the Herald printed front-page stories condemning the entire furlough system...