Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shape up as a classic World Series. My fearless forecast liked the Reds in three. I know you need four victories to win a series, but I thought the Reds would win the first three games. Then the Yankees would descend into communal depression, drink hard liquor and fail to show up for Game...
...council yesterday asked its subcommittee on academic policy and the coordinating committee of the dean's task forces to clarify what members of the University staff may sign students' study cards for the pass-fail credits...
...characters are vivid and complex and its polemics never threaten to overpower the central psychological drama. The Loeb production--spotty as it is--still manages to retain much of the play's original dramatic force. But it succeeds partially only because, with Candida, it would be very hard to fail utterly...
What the apartheid spokesmen fail to point out is that that little corner is extremely small--13 per cent of South Africa's land area, most of it infertile and mineral-poor, is allocated to its 16 million blacks without regard to their actual origins. The homelands have become nothing more than cheap labor reserves for white-owned mines and industry, as anyone looking for a job must go outside the bantustans. The Transkei is not exceptional in the percentage of its assigned population that lives outside its border; only those who are too young, too old, or too sickly...
...morning last week, the directors of CBS Inc. walked into the 35th-floor boardroom of the company's headquarters tower in mid-Manhattan for their monthly meeting. They could not fail to notice the one empty seat at the huge, 17-place mahogany table-the seat reserved for President Arthur R. Taylor-but no one said anything about it. They had all been warned of what was going to happen next. CBS Chairman William S. Paley, 75, wasted no time. He announced that Taylor, 41, a financial wizard whom Paley himself hand-picked in 1972 for the presidency...