Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fires it into the air. This quick thinking seems a bit too quick, for my money. The three black boys then run out, and, just as Paul gets to the door to escape, a cop enters. Now how could this cop walk in at precisely that moment and fail to grab or shoot at (since this is a liberal play where cops should shoot rashly) any of the other culprits who just streamed out into the street? Don't ask me; I'm just calling...
...full support behind the teachers, poured 40,000 people into a demonstration at City Hall." You had merely to be present at this demonstration (as I was) to know that the vast majority of those present were parents and teachers, with a very small number of union representatives. You fail to indicate that 4,000 supervisors are out because of extremely serious reasons. More than 30 principals have been forced out of their schools by militant groups. They have been threatened with physical violence, and threats have also been directed at their families...
...Disorganized Rabble." The race, in its climactic phase at least, could hardly fail to engage the politician's imagination. The times seemed made for Nixon, yet despite his urbane demeanor and finely honed organization, there remained until the end the possibility that tension and fatigue might combine to bring out the rabbit-punching infighter that the "new Nixon" had kept so firmly in control. For very different reasons, Humphrey's battle for survival also was a fascinating study. Chronically late, incorrigibly loquacious, hopelessly disorganized, the Vice President had seemed to everyone but himself to be a walking case...
Since tuition, private gifts and endowment income fail to balance their budgets, U.S. universities increasingly tend to rely on the Federal Government for financial salvation. The current congressional economy drive, which has sharply limited federal support for academic research, has thus created a situation that university officials variously describe as "serious," "desperate" and even "disastrous...
Early returns indicated that Nixon would probably win Alaska's three electoral votes, while Democratic House speaker Mike Gravel would edge out Anchorage Mayor Elmer Rasmuson for the Senate seat vacated by Ernest Gruening. Gruening's write-in eort to keep his seat seemed destined to fail badly...