Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your article, too often Congressmen yield to their desire for reelection instead of to their knowledge of what is right or wrong for the whole country, then I fail to see where Democracy has anything to recommend it above Fascism or Naziism. If we must be bribed to perform a simple duty, then the quality of the duty must be largely determined by the size of the bribe. And if our Congressmen feel that with the assurance of a lifetime income . . . they can render better service, then God help us and all the peoples who are wholeheartedly fighting...
Certainly Japanese land and air forces did not fail for lack of effort. Ninety miles east of Rangoon they established a jumping-off spot at the smoking, Kipling-sung city of Moulmein, fanned northward along Burma's longest and swiftest river, the Salween, for a frontal assault against the curving coastal Martaban-Pegu railroad that leads into the Burma Road, feed line for seaborne supplies from the U.S. But there the advance slowed, then virtually halted...
Singapore's defenders knew the stakes. If they should fail all United Nations bases from Suez to Pearl Harbor would be in hazard. Japan's Malayan forces would be free to attack Java, Burma, perhaps Australia. With evacuation almost impossible, it would deal a heavy blow in manpower. Some 60,000 British troops were on the island. And it would give Japan a free passage to the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. Knowing these things Singapore's defenders fought bravely and well, but bravery was not enough...
...Houses the complaint has taken the form of arguments with waitresses and roll fights. It seems obvious that the present system will not be tolerated by the student body for long. If the Dining Halls expect to solve their financial deficit by such means I am afraid they shall fail...
Correspondents are allowed to file 500 words a day, but the transmission facilities are so busy with military matters that the dispatches usually fail to get through. Troopers everywhere pester the correspondents to report news of their individual safety, always ask when reinforcements will arrive...