Word: duds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down for the Third Time? The tone of the Rockefeller statement indicated that he meant it to be a bomb, but it proved to be a bomb only in the show-business sense-a dud. Few Republican politicians even gave Rocky credit for being genuinely concerned about the direction of the G.O.P. Most of them appeared to think he was really concerned about his own political future rather than the party's. Even politicians who agreed with him that the influence of the radical right presents a danger to the Republican Party nonetheless assumed that he was politicking...
...eleven-year-olds who are sent to "secondary modern" schools set up by the 1944 act. Stripped of grammar-level minds, such schools are often semi-vocational institutions that cannot offer training for even the ordinary GCE. Parents and children loudly call them "dumping grounds for duds." Class-conscious Britons feel that "dud" schools spell failure, not to mention the danger of a lower-class accent for their children. To avoid eleven-plus disaster, parents lavish prizes of cash, bicycles and transistor radios on the kids to make them cram harder. Recalling her mother's expression when she failed...
...buyer's traditional urge to move up to higher-priced cars. For a time, this skepticism seemed likely to lead G.M. into serious trouble. In 1959, when Ford's compact Falcon scored an immediate success while Chevrolet's rear-engine Corvair was something of a dud, it appeared that Ford might grab off the lion's share of an important new market. Almost by chance, however, Chevrolet dressed up some Corvairs with pizazz features to attract customers into showrooms to look at the ordinary Corvair. With that began the Monza and the "bucket seat boom" -another...
Indian quarter milers Tom Holsel and Dud Hallagan should pick up points against a weak varsity 440 group, and the Green's John Knight is a talented hurdler...
Homogeneously Conservative. Printed in 38 charter papers, Buckley's first column must have seemed something of a dud. Its target was a pamphlet. Communism: Threat to Freedom, issued last March by the Rev. John F. Cronin, S.S.,* of the National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington. To Buckley. Father Cronin's main point-that the Communist threat is more external than internal-seemed hardly worth arguing ("the distinction has become old-fashioned and increasingly useless''). The columnist contented himself with an attack on the value of God as the Western world's ally. Wrote Buckley...