Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proclamation, a Liberty-League re-hash of the New Deal, closed with a threat: "If you fail, then patriotic voters of all parties will know unhesitatingly to what standard they must rally in order to preserve the America of the great leaders of the past...
...caught, commercial racketeers can usually be convicted for mail or bankruptcy fraud, both Federal offenses. But in retail trade a creditor has no recourse against a dead beat except to sue. It is no crime to charge a mink coat, then fail...
...first thing to appear was a dizziness, with diplopia [double vision]. The following day, I was unable to hold a cup in my right hand, and my mental processes were beginning to fail me. On the third day, I was a wreck. I saw everything double, and in trying to feed myself, I was always feeding the wrong face. . . . Mental processes were askew. . . . My surgical instruments that I had used for years seemed strange to me, and while I knew what they were, could not get it through my head how to use them. Writing was out of the question...
...professional boxing in 1932. Last year, when Joe Louis arrived in Los Angeles to fight Lee Ramage, he offered Leroy Haynes a job as sparring partner. Haynes refused, offered to fight Louis instead. Louis' managers countered with an offer to manage Haynes. Wary lest he fail to receive a full share of their attention, Haynes declined again, decided to go East. If he failed to make a living with his fists, he knew he could depend on a baritone voice so good that Orchestra Leader Fred Waring had offered to pay for his singing lessons...
...surprise and terror wells into his face. He clutches at his heart, droops, collapses, in a few minutes is dead. "Heart failure," announces the ambulance doctor. "Coronary thrombosis," reports the autopsist. "A blood clot clogged one of the principal blood vessels of the heart muscle and caused it to fail," explains the family doctor. Not every victim of a heart attack dies instanter. But doctors almost universally are pessimistic about a heart victim living long thereafter. And the survivors live in continual apprehension...