Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes me mad about our national policy is that it is based on incomplete reasoning. The equivocal speeches of the President fail to carry the idea of defeating Hitler through to a practical program. There is no military prospectus which deals with the actual facts in front of us yet. Such a prospectus it seems to me is of vital importance. It is the first premise of our whole Beat Hitler policy...
...hybrid. Particular stumbling block is The Guardsman's plot: the predicament of an actor who, to satisfy his wife's yearning for amorous adventure and to satisfy himself that she is faithful to him, dresses up in the uniform of a guardsman and tries, hoping he will fail, to cuckold himself. The demands of this ticklish situation (used by M.G.M. with minor changes) are simply beyond the histrionic capacities of the picture's two principals: wholesome, husky Risöe (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, young (28) Metropolitan Opera demidiva, and dimpled, impassive Nelson Eddy, 40, who looks...
...world is an expression of the desire of people to live. For us this idea is expressed in the three great heritages of liberty, legalism, and Christianity. For others it is nationalism or communism, or socialism--all are ways of realizing the same end. Where we fail is when we forget the idea of toleration and become engaged in ideological struggles forgetting that ideologies are based on the common desires that you and I have...
...plan, he points out, "will succeed or fail according to the way it serves the interests of he pubic, for, after all, dentists and dental schools exist only because they satisfy pubic need. Dentistry, dental schools, and the new plan at Harvard will exist only so long as they fulfill that need...
...Saturday night, after Civilian Defense Chief Fiorello LaGuardia had described the new 50.000 watt transmitter's insurance against wartime interruption (if power lines fail, it can run on its own generator, pick up the studio by micro-wave), the shift was made from WABC's old antennae near Wayne...