Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irish press proper, taut censorship is maintained vigilantly by the newsmen themselves, from country correspondents, who will fail to phone in a story because it "isn't nice," to city editors, who generally accept all "conventions," do not think of them as actual censorship. All of which has led to an adage that pretty accurately describes the Irish press: "It doesn't matter what happens, as long as it doesn't get into the paper...
...error in question is a matter of just two words, but two important and crucial ones. Lady Macbeth is trying to overcome Macbeth's reluctance and to bolster his courage to murder Duncan. He protests, "If we should fail--," and she retorts with "We fail"--two words with at least three possible interpretations (each with more than one inflection): (1) "We fail?"; (2) "We fail!"; and (3) "We fail." Mrs. Siddons, history's most celebrated portrayer of the role, finally settled on the third; and Miss McKenna does the same. But this is the most inadmissiable solution. Lady Macbeth must...
Nixon (looking intently into Khrushchev's eyes): It would be a great mistake and a blow to peace if that conference were to fail...
...Schmid's health should fail (he suffered a stroke in 1956), the party might put forward another member of the selection commission, a man who is otherwise being groomed to run for Chancellor in 1965 : West Berlin's dynamic Mayor Willy Brandt, 45. Nobody needs to worry where Willy stands on Communism...
...hurdle founded by Napoleon 151 years ago, has been a nightmare for secondary-school students ever since. The "bachot"' is a double headache: up to three days of stiff written exams, one appalling day of ten successive 10-minute oral exams by ten gimlet-eyed professors. Those who fail in June (65%) get another chance in September; those who fail then (80%) stay at school another year. Notable first-round failures: Anatole France, Alphonse Daudet, Andre Gide, Franchise Sagan. Though some brave bachot bumblers repeat the year as many as six times, others (like Gide) bid adieu to formal...