Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fail to understand how anyone could possibly expect Israel to recognize the so-called P.L.O., who have no respect for human life, not even their...
...back in 1939 read a letter from the little man with the funny hair and began the atomic bomb. And one afternoon shortly before the Bay of Pigs in 1961, John Kennedy brushed aside the warnings that a moon shot was a multibillion-dollar, decade-long gamble that might fail. Such decisions dwarf the squabbles of politicians...
...book's only flaw. It is, after all, difficult to weave numerous interviews together in a readable fashion. One wishes, nonetheless, that Gornick devised transitions more imaginative than bulletins announcing with which ex-Communist she drank coffee and with whom she guzzled Scotch. Descriptions of living room decor also fail to enhance the reader's understanding of American Communism's nature, romantic or otherwise. And, in most instances, her discourses on her subjects' family histories are of interest only to an eager parlor Freudian...
...that Control Data has opened in the ghettos of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Washington, D.C. The number will rise to 1 ,400 next January when Norris opens a fourth plant in a renewal area of St. Paul. Other business chiefs have tried to build in the ghetto, only to fail. Norris says he knows why: "They figured it was just philanthropy. They sent in their money, but not their smarts or their guts...
...need that they even laugh at Don Rickles or Joey Bishop. Meanwhile, fewer and fewer people partake of the real humor that is all around. Studio audiences at TV talk shows of the Mike Douglas genre tend to laugh at the host, presumably for nervous relief. But they frequently fail even to chuckle when the list of guests is proclaimed, even though such lists usually contain more jokes than the show...