Word: dud
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...welder need belong to more than one union to work anywhere in any shipyard," sputtered from Washington: "Shocking act of disloyalty." A.F. of L. officials raised their hands in holy horror. Public opinion fell on the welders' heads like a ton of bricks. The strike call was a dud. Only a scattering from a few Pacific Coast yards responded to it. At one yard last week A.F. of L. boilermakers charged out and dispersed a straggling picket line...
...other side of the picture, the Mitres also have a devastating passing attack, centered around Dud Miller. Half back Donovan is on the receiving end, of many of Miller's heaves, and excells at ball-carrying as well. In one game, he scored 18 points on plays that carried from 40 to 20 yards apiece...
...national hero that Des Moines outburst now makes him a national "dud" and probably the most unpopular national figure in America. I should think he would retire from the public limelight just as quickly as it takes to pack up and go home...
...that torpedo had not turned out to be a dud, Leigh Hoadley would not today be a professor of Biology, expert in the development of frog, fish and chicken eggs, and Master of Leverett House...
...Three dud shells lie in what must have been a garden. A dud bomb is buried in the roadside mud. The front half of an armored car is parked in the shadow of what was once a house. A bent, bullet-riddled fragment of what had been a tank lies near a dirt-caked helmet. The helmet looks like a tortoise's back: it smells sour...