Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norman Carl Miller of North American Aviation, Inc. tell about quick-acting safety devices to prevent such calamities. They do not think much of gadgets that require a power source or an electrical "scram" signal to tell them the reactor is about to misbehave. Either power or signal might fail...
...SHOW FINES for air passengers who book seats but fail to show for flights will be dropped in August. Though fines cut no-shows, they were too costly for airlines to administer...
...Geneva Conference, said Dean Acheson, "was not merely a failure; it was a fraud and positive harm . . . Unless the situation is ripe for settlement, then, no matter how eminent the participants, how perceptive their insight, how bold and imaginative their conceptions, their efforts will fail. In the last twelve years the international conference has ceased to be an instrument for ending conflict and has become one for continuing it. For high international negotiations it is not necessary that chiefs of state or heads of government be involved...
...usual sense of the word. Under Erhard's policy of guaranteeing exports to underdeveloped countries, German firms which intend to do business in the "regions" of Egypt or Syria may submit their plans to Bonn for approval. They must finance their own shipments; only if the U.A.R. should fail to pay would the guarantee operate. For Cairo's ambitious list of factories, bridges and port projects, the West German government would promise only to provide technical advice and training...
...Ironically, the U.S. embassy was probably the last stronghold in Moscow to become aware of Van's coup; U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and his wife had not even made plans to attend Van's finals audition until they were convinced by American contestants that to fail to appear would be a major blunder. And the committee of the Martha Baird Rockefeller Aid to Music Program, which paid the fare to Moscow for Van and the other Americans, had pledged the contestants to secrecy on the theory that their presence in Russia would be politically unpopular back home...