Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eyeties out of the war. Churchill and his Cabinet, after spouting about a Blenheim and a Waterloo, would very likely stand or fall by what happened. Failure here would put the whole Empire into an awful funk. Even the U.S. might shy back out if Britain came another cropper here. The Imperial General Staff, shaken around on the eve of this attack (see p. 22), would be in a pretty bad stew to find a next move...
...crust started ambitious plans to revive Nashville's prestige as a horse-racing center. They formed the elegant Grasslands Hunt Club, invited the East's best jumpers to take part in the "International Steeplechase." After two Internationals, Depression hit Nashville, Caldwell's banking empire came a cropper and Grasslands grew weeds...
Greenwich Village's American Contemporary Artists Gallery nestles like a hayloft hideaway in the eaves of the Village Barn cabaret. There last week William Cropper, U. S. leftism's No. 1 painter, gave his annual one-man show. A persistent sapper and gnawer at the roots of capitalism (for years the ace cartoonist of the old Liberator, the newer New Masses), Painter Gropper turns out each year some 50 oils, countless lithographs and drawings of fat capitalists, hungry workers, woe-heeled sharecroppers, bashed and bleeding soldiers. His highly-colored, savagely-drawn pictures have drawn praises and commissions from...
...past decade steeplechasing has come a cropper. With tracks sprouting up all over the country (thus creating a greater demand for horses, horses, even second-rate horses), more & more owners sent their dubious or jaded thoroughbreds into claiming races to earn their oats, in stead of converting them into jumpers...
...said in a pathetic attempt at enthusiasm that the Åndalsnes reembarkation was carried out "without losing a single man." If it was so carried out it was technical operation that military men will admire, but that did not alter the fact that the expedition had come a shocking cropper...