Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second fact which many fail to appreciate fully is that China was still in the midst of a great revolution when she was plunged into this war against her wishes. Revolutions are almost always disorderly and long-drawn-out affairs. It took the French 80 years to get through their revolution. It took us 90 years, including a great Civil War, before we got straightened out after our revolution. You will remember that when our Republic was older than China's is, conditions in this country in the latter part of the War of 1812 were...
Since 1925 the Gluecks have compiled detailed case histories of 2,000. Punishment, they have found, does not reform; 88% of juvenile delinquents remain delinquent. But the offenses tend to become less serious as the criminals grow older. Those who show least improvement are those who fail to mature with the years...
...Alexis Smith, her younger sister, only to find that Miss Smith has no use for him. In the course of describing just how his wife looked when he last saw her, he makes a single mistake that punctures his otherwise airtight alibi. Since mystery-hardened cinemaddicts can hardly fail to miss his slip, it becomes much too clear, from there on, how and by whom he is being brought to justice. The method: to make him believe that his wife is still alive, by leaving her perfume fresh in their bedroom, her wedding ring in the parlor safe...
...astute move cut two ways. The appointment of U.S.-educated T. V. Soong, who more than any other Chinese has in the past showed a grasp of Western methods, men and purposes, could scarcely fail to please the U.S. and simplify the task of Chiang's U.S. advisers, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Chief of the joint U.S.-Chinese General Staff...
What he did not say was that an alarming number of small U.S. businesses fail every year because their owners do not know what they are getting into...