Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widow, whose wealth came from a marriage of Oklahoma oil and Pittsburgh machine tools. Not even her warmest admirers, who liked her liveliness, would credit her with overwhelming charm or notable wit. But ambassadors, Senators and Cabinet officers come at her beck. In a city where a hostess' success can be scored like points in a cribbage game by counting up the rank of her guests, Perle Mesta outscores them all. Unlike her predecessors, Perle Mesta won her position not by prestige and not alone by wealth. She won by 303 electoral votes -those that elected Harry Truman...
...Harvard, it's the Yale game that counts. Therefore the freshman basketball squad can tonight make a success of a season which, especially in its late stages, has been strongly flavored with mediocrity. In their last five games, the freshmen have won but a single bame and their victim was a prep school...
...President Truman declared the Truman Doctrine a complete success...
Because of the success of the Seminar's first two seasons its administrators feel that, "future changes will be in procedure, not principle...
...last month, military success has been on the side of the Republican guerrillas, and the Dutch are finding their position less tenable. At the Indian meeting the formation of a Far Eastern bloc was suggested. Though rejected, it was clear proof that Asiatic nations are prepared to organize to protect their interests. Continued Dutch action has become enormously dangerous by risking alienation of such a group. To crack the whip, Senator Brewster recommended last month that ECA aid be cut-off from any nation which disregards UN directives...