Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President had read aloud the day before were still there. But peppered among them now were other words, phrases, sentences, bitter, taunting, contemptuous words which stung the majority leader like slaps in the face: "unwise," "inept," "indefensible special privileges to favored groups," "dangerous precedents for the future," "disappoint and fail the American taxpayers." Taxpayers' confusion, asserted the President, was not the Treasury's fault but "squarely the fault of the Congress of the United States...
...Musical Literature, which may be the South's best musical library. It includes letters (by Gershwin, Puccini, Humperdinck, Gounod, Meyerbeer-but none by Negro musicians), operatic and other scores, U.S. first editions, a vast heap of recordings, bursting scrapbooks of U.S. musical history. All this can hardly fail to seduce white scholars from Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Chapel Hill and Duke Universities...
...table listing the international organization's suggested powers, only the last three failed to get majority approval. Even then, if the undecided polices divided evenly after making up their minds, only the last one would fail of a majority...
...Disappointment Clubs are also fictitious. Their "members" are supposed to answer advertisements for servants, agree to take a job, then fail to appear, call up and say they will be there the following day. When they finally show up, they work for two days and then disappear...
...German land-based air power; communications were so badly organized that landing parties had trouble contacting headquarters at Cairo 500 miles away; equipment was rusty and inadequate. Some wit rose to the occasion by dubbing Jumbo "The Wizard of Cos." Another commented that the Russians shoot generals who fail, the Americans find soft jobs for them, the British promote them...