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...Cincinnati, the Duquesne University basketball team, winner of 22 straight and voted the No. 1 team in the U.S. (TIME, March 1). finally came a cropper at the hands of the University of Cincinnati, 66-52. Next night Duquesne lost again, 64-54, to Dayton...
Worst of all, the reluctant strongman's experiment in democracy had come a cropper. Four years ago Shishekly seized power, ending the series of coups that had produced 16 governments in the first three years of Syrian independence from French rule. He did not want to be a man-on-horseback; he regarded himself, he said, as a sort of authoritarian custodian until his people could be "entrusted with power." He made grand plans for reforms, but initiated few of them...
...Orange Bowl at Miami, Maryland, the U.S.'s No. 1 team (minus its All-America Quarterback Bernie Faloney for most of the game), came a cropper at the hands of underdog Oklahoma, 7-0. The Sooners, the nation's top offensive rushing team, twice stopped Maryland inside their loyd. line and shut out the Terrapins for the first time in 51 games...
Sense of Security. Next day Foxhunter & Co. came a cropper. Approaching a tricky triple bar, the colonel placed Foxhunter too far away ("It was my fault"). Foxhunter balked and the colonel took most of the jump alone. "Part of the game, don't you know," said Llewellyn, ruefully rubbing his swollen face. (As part of the game, Llewellyn has taken seven spills in seven years that have been bad enough to cost him a whole upper front plate each time...
...could only be achieved through the party; whatever the party line said was so. Like others, Darke had casually checked his mind and doubts at the door. But since Marxist theology is both intricate and shifty, and the party demanding, many a well-meaning comrade came a cropper when faced with the gobbledygook that passes for dialectic...