Word: fails
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Aircraft and automotive technicians doubtless could shoot some holes in it. None could quarrel with the fact that U. S. aircraft production of military combat planes up to last week had failed to reach 500 a month, much less 500 a day. None could fail to welcome fresh, aggressive thinking...
...armored force. The Germans in conquered Europe, the British in Africa had shown what this new combat team could do-and what could happen to nations which had no team, or a poor one. The fustiest officer in the U. S. Army could hardly ignore the lesson, nor fail to see that U. S. airmen and tankers were certain to demand a large and possibly dominant place in the new Army...
...fabulous bushy red eyebrows. From his office window he keeps a sharp eye on the campus, often roars commands across the green at boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...
...Britain with all his might this winter and spring. Everything else is for him a side show. But if he can destroy Britain, he and his friends will have won the basis of world domination. But this time he is going to concentrate on the sea. He has failed to overwhelm us in the air and we are sure that he will continue to fail, while with your help our power to hit back with our bombers will steadily increase. But he is building submarines and long-distance planes with all his might and main with which to bomb...
Said the Italian radio last week: "We fail to see the reason for this hysterical condition into which the British press and the British radio have whipped themselves over a temporary advance of a few miles. The very fact that this zone has been crossed by the British in a very short time, and by the Italians, on the previous occasion, in a shorter time still, only goes to prove that the feat can be done...