Word: duds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the latest interplanetary firecracker shot off by Khrushchev's obliging scientists was a dud. Moscow Radio trumpeted the news that Russia had put a 4.5-ton "spaceship" into near-circular orbit about 200 miles above the earth. Inside the new satellite, said Moscow, was a pressurized cabin containing a dummy spaceman, "all necessary equipment for future manned flight," and about 1.5 tons of instrumentation...
...first time in more than a year, the U.S. Treasury last week tried to sell long-term bonds. The sale was a dud. Treasury offered 25-year bonds with 4¼% interest, the legal maximum imposed by Congress, hoped to sell at least $500 million worth, offered up to $1.5 billion. Only $370 million worth was sold. Another offer of $2 billion in 25-month notes was oversubscribed, thus more than meeting the Treasury's cash needs of $2.5 billion. Said a top Treasury official: "The response to the long-term issue shows conclusively that we simply cannot sell...
...Teamster solidarity. Again he whaled away at Kennedy ("the handsome young man who never knew what it was to work with his hands"), as well as at Arkansas' Teamster-investigating Democratic Senator John McClellan, the Landrum-Griffin bill, radio, TV, the press, etc. But the meeting was a dud: of the 150,000 Teamsters in the New York area, only 10,000 showed up. "Frankly," explained a Hoffa aide, "it was a disappointing turnout, but we didn't want to put on the muscle...
...reading twice, once to take him around the world at the age of seven, and a second time at 16, to deposit him in Australia for a four-year stretch of school-mastering in the rough-and-tumble outback. Havelock roughed it, but he was a dud as a teacher. As he later reported with clinical detachment in his autobiography, he experienced his first diurnal, involuntary orgasm in Australia (while reading the Dames Galantes of Brant...