Word: duds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unfortunately, the revival is a dud. To break the news gently to those around 50: the show is unlikely to remind you of the heady days when the nation sent Lucky Strike Green to war. It will prove to you how bald, paunchy and pooped a show can get in 27 years...
...book by his favorite novelist, P.G. Wodehouse, and looks like somebody's kid brother home for the long hols. If fame and fortune have not yet disturbed them, it may be because so much of it has come in the U.S. "The LP record is an absolute dud in England," Rice explains. "Only three weeks ago a friend of my mother's said, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if Tim could make a living out of that song...
...Robertson. He had not hit a home run in the last six weeks of the regular season, but he belted three of them in the second game to power the Pirates to a 9-4 victory. The surprise in the third game was Pitcher Bob Johnson, a self-proclaimed "dud" during the season (nine wins, ten losses). Tapped as a last-minute replacement for ailing Nelson Briles, he held the Giants to four hits during the first seven innings. Then in the eighth, with two outs, two men on and the score tied 1-1, Pirate Pitching Coach Don Osborn...
...officials, President Nixon ordered the FBI to investigate the bombing. But since he had signed the bill after the blast, the FBI's function was never precisely defined. Bureau spokesmen would alternatively state that the FBI was, and was not, involved in the case. Their activity, too, was a dud...
...tend to fall apart. A phone call to the wife pleading late work at the office, for example, is less than convincing with the noisy hilarity of a swinging singles bar audible in the background. Similarly, the hospital-visit-to-an-ailing-aunt ploy is apt to prove a dud with a boss whose receiver is also picking up the strains of a jukebox or the cries of a ballpark hot dog vendor. To prevent such pretexts from collapsing, help is finally at hand: alibi tapes...