Word: surmounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems, kept charging ahead. Result: the rubber program is shaping up excellently. Then, wholly uninfected by Washington, he announced that, barring production mishaps, he would resign on July 1 and go back to his job as president of Union Pacific. This was cheering news; apparently one man could surmount the lure of the spotlight...
There was West Point, where he had spent five years instead of four, because of certain curricular difficulties which took more than blood and guts to surmount...
...Inch & Brothers. For long-term relief the hope lay in Big Inch and other lines like it. Big Inch, when finished, will be an engineering and construction monument. It will tunnel 1,400 miles under eight states and 20 rivers and surmount the rolling Alleghenies. Now building in the South is an extension of Big Inch's smaller (maximum 11 inch) brother, the Plantation Line, which by June will stretch from Baton Rouge to Richmond. Oilmen figure that still another such line would be needed if both war and civilian needs are to be fulfilled...
...risks we take or judge our acts. For you, the French people, it is simply a question of following me without mental reservations along the path of honor and national interest. If through our close discipline and our public spirit we can conduct the negotiations in progress, France will surmount her defeat and preserve in the world her rank as a European and colonial power. That, my dear friends, is all that I have to say to you today...