Word: duds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definitive statement of U.S. foreign policy in the world today was not one but a three-gun salvo, directed not only toward Europe, but toward Latin America and Asia as well. At week's end, as near as spotters could judge, the score was one direct hit, one dud, one hit with a time fuse that had yet to explode...
...substantial reserve strength bolster the expectations of the racquet-wielders from Cambridge. The nine men who are wearing the Crimson for the weekend's battles are southpaw Gene Nickerson, Sonny Lyell, Galen Felt Stretch Baker (six feet seven in his stocking feet). Captain Don Marvin, Decker Orr, Sandy Parker, Dud Palmer, and Doug Cochrane...
...should Mexico lease such a large area to Japanese oil interests when the Government went to such pains to expropriate the properties of all foreign oil companies two years ago? Why should Japanese oil interests want to lease dud property? There were many guesses as to the answers, and none was pleasant...
...raids, to cheer their batteries and count fires. High roofs were in demand, and in one building a porter conducted five-minute tours to the roof. Delayed-action bombs killed some of the curious. Down Piccadilly one afternoon strolled a civilian with a bomb he thought was a dud and was carrying as a present for his wife. Another Piccadilly stroller on a bright moonlit night wore a black jacket and a black Eden hat, carried an umbrella sedately over his head against the shrapnel shower...
...Packard directors met to consider the deal. The meeting lasted all afternoon, while reporters waited. To them was handed a curt announcement: the Rolls-Royce project had been discussed, but "many matters require further study." Max Gilman apologized for a statement which "you [reporters] will probably think is a dud." It was by no means certain that the contract would be signed. Bill Knudsen's effort to get 9,000 Rolls-Royces seemed to carry a jinx...