Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year about how Soviet oil drillers were operating off Hither Hills State Park with an oil rig disguised as a fishing trawler. Both the stories sent reporters from national news organizations scrambling to investigate. "I believe the line between reality and fiction is obvious," says Rattiner. "If I fail in making it so, it is my fault. But it certainly gets everyone talking about the paper...
Motorists who fail to pay New York City parking fines have recently been subjected to an intense new collection campaign: dunning notices in the mail, mysterious and sometimes threatening phone calls from collection agencies, even warnings on the radio that "scofflaws" can face garnishment of wages and liens on their property. Last week, however, it was disclosed that the city's biggest scofflaw-incurring fines and penalties estimated at $6 million per year-is the U.S. Federal Government...
...Nasser demanded a similar pullout of U.N. forces for their own safety in the face of "Israeli aggression" and Egyptian defensive moves. The late Secretary-General U Thant complied. Eighteen days later, the Six-Day War erupted. The Israelis were betting that Cairo would back down, partly because of fail-safe ambiguities in Fahmy's letter, partly because they are convinced that Egypt is not remotely prepared for another war. Jerusalem even suspected that Fahmy was a straw man setting up the issue so that Sadat could knock it down...
...doubt [that] it is possible to achieve another interim agreement with Syria because geography and topography do not allow the kind of maneuverability we have in the Sinai. However, if efforts at an interim accord with Syria fail, it should not affect the behavior of Egypt. Cairo should be bound regardless of what happens between Israel and Syria. If an interim agreement with Syria is not reached, it should not prompt the U.S. to begin any new reassessment of the Middle East situation...
...kicks at the dirt like a racehorse, as he has for fifteen years, his third spot in the line-up is like a stall with his prize of a name on it. The fans boo, or some of them do, always. They find an excuse, and they never fail to because he expresses all the disappointments of Boston fans for a decade. They are high expectations, derived in part from the yearly and wildly optimistic hopes of any dichard fan, but also because Yaz symbolizes the moment in history that fuels these expectations. That was 1967 the Impossible Dream pennant...