Word: duds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mama" "Yumi ologeta," he wrote, "i halivim" (You me altogether we help 'em). In the U.S. some 25 private charities had half-heartedly joined with the U.N. to make the same sing-out in the United Nations Appeal for Children, but their unwieldy, badly organized campaign was a dud. Instead of a hoped-for $60 million it had turned up only a measly $7,000,000. Disheartened at this showing, the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council had voted to end the world drive. Rabaul's reporter went right on pleading the cause of the Yunaited Neisans...
...also tried. In March 1943, one almost succeeded by wrapping up a bomb and planting it in Hitler's airplane. The plane took off with Hitler aboard, but arrived at its destination safely. Reason: the bomb's firing pin had tripped, but the percussion cap was a dud...
...Secretary of War Stimson's recent article in Harper's Magazine, President Conant discussed the military requirements which forced the use of the bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Nothing would have been more damaging to our effort to obtain surrender than a warning or demonstration followed by a dud--and this was a real possibility. We had no bombs to waste," he said...
...committee considered giving the Japanese a demonstration "in some uninhabited area" in the hopes of frightening them out of the war. The idea was rejected. The demonstration might be a dud. "Nothing would have been more damaging to our effort to obtain surrender." The scientists agreed: "We see no acceptable alternative to direct military...
...boys & girls and Future Farmers in the state had turned up there for his annual stock-judging contest. He had made headlines when his highly touted bull, T. Royal Rupert 99th, sold for a record-breaking $38,000 (TIME, Jan. 24, 1944), and turned out to be a dud...