Word: fiasco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China fiasco is now history. But, have Acheson, Truman, and now Stevenson considered the difference in distance between Siberia and Alaska, compared to the distance between Europe and the U.S.A...
...thing, right after the 1948 fiasco, the pollsters turned over their figures for an autopsy by the Social Science Research Council. It checked actual votes against the predictions. The council discovered three major errors...
...Harvard law professor, was already in trouble. It faced 12,000 applications for wage boosts for millions of workers, and new ones were pouring in at the rate of 1,800 a week. The board had inherited all the problems from the old board's steel wage fiasco...
...spirit are ash-dry. He watches young Tano Ruiz work deftly with the first bull, hears the crowd shouting in approval. Let Tano thrill them. He, Pacote, will "coast all the way," retire to a good safe life of raising bulls in Cordoba. His own first bull is a fiasco. Pacote trips on his cape before making a single pass. As he staggers to his feet, the bull deals him a glancing blow that knocks him down and out. As the doctor works feverishly to bring him to, Tano, more than ever the crowd's darling, neatly kills...
TIME'S Nov. 12 piece on the Winchell-Baker-Stork-Club fiasco rates three loud cheers. Your treatment of racial-prejudice incidents has always been excellent. Also nice blow for the misused word "discrimination." It used to be a handy one. And may Sugar Ray Robinson's "Daddy-O, ungather my dry goods, or I'll have to let you have it," be remembered favorably with Joe Jacobs' candid "I shoulda stood...