The estate's named executrix, the philanthropist Jacqueline Miller Rice, had been something of a deadbeat guardian, failing to return letters from scholars in search of Powell breadcrumbs or to deliver any of Powell's materials to academic archives for public use.
After failing to get letters out using messengers ("A man's life was too dear a price to pay even for success" explained Robinson in a later report), and unable to get through the Prussian lines himself, Robinson decided "I must try the air".
Senior U.N. officials have accused the government of failing to provide letters to allow convoys to reach other besieged areas in Syria.
David Browning Huddersfield In his heartfelt letter on failing the 11-plus (9 September), Dr Paraskos captures exactly the corroding effects of knowing at such a young age that you are in the wrong place.
There, the people who pick the mutual funds in your 401(k) plan are also supposed to be acting in your interest as fiduciaries, too, and may be failing to meet the letter, or at least the spirit, of that legal standard.
Mulligan heard about the casting call at a dinner hosted by Julian Fellowes, to whom she had written a letter after failing to get into drama school; she won the part after three auditions.
More and more parents are sent letters for failing to pay for school meals.
Though her eyesight is failing, Cleary still reads letters from readers.
When I was on drugs, I took the overfamiliar countryside for granted; flying around in a daze, delivering letters or failing to.
The famous sign on one bridge still commemorates the city's industrial past — "Trenton Makes, the World Takes" — but residents acknowledged there was some poetic truth when the lights in the letters began failing before recent repairs, leaving it "Trenton akes".
