Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court-martial. The trial had all the trimmings of the customary military tribunal, even a heavily worded bill of specifications: Pfc. Andrew God, 25, "having knowledge of a lawful order ... to peel and eye potatoes as directed, an order which it was his duty to obey, did . . . fail to obey the same. [He] did, without proper authority, willfully suffer potatoes, of some value, military property of the U.S., to be destroyed by improper peeling...
...workers (it is against Spanish law to lay off workers, as well as to strike), no one wanted to take any chances. But the real reason went deeper. "A purely Communist strike,' complained one Socialist leader. "If they succeed, they'll take all the credit. If they fail, they will blame us." So Spain's moderate opposition, of all varieties, did their most to make the general strike of 1959 a failure...
...tying to the presidential election "the Issue"-doing away with proportional representation, which, while giving minorities a voice in the Dail, tends to keep alive old animosities that should have long since become ancient history. "Get rid of the intrigous P.R.!" cried a member of Dev's Fianna Fail (Party of Destiny). "De Valera and Fianna Fail want dictatorship!" retorted the opposition Fine Gael (United Ireland) Party. But it was hardly the sort of issue to stir the hearts of a people who 40 years ago fought the "oppressor" and have never got over...
...group of young oil truckers he said: "But now I bring you a message from De Gaulle. That message is that, united in our effort for peace and prosperity, we will have them both and more. If we are wise enough to work together, we cannot fail." . We Will Never Leave. For four 18-hour days, at walled village after village, he went through the same routine-the greeting of the pipers, the investiture of new mayors and councilmen, the decorating of soldiers and civilians with everything from the Mėdaille Militaire to the Sanitation Cross with Palms...
...unknown . . . tend to diverge from stereotyped meanings, to perceive personal success by unconventional standards, to seek out careers that do not conform to what is expected of them." Concluded Getzels and Jackson: "It is no less than a tragedy that in American education at all levels we fail to distinguish between our convergent and divergent talents-or, even worse, that we try to convert our divergent students into convergent students...