Word: fiasco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jagan gets out of control, the constitution, revised after the 1953 fiasco, gives the governor enough power to tame him. Though the new Cabinet is controlled 5 to 4 by Jaganites, the governor himself hangs onto the title of President and can cast a vote. As for the Legislative Council, the governor could, if necessary, appoint enough new members to gain a pro-British majority. In a deeper crisis, he could invoke emergency powers and assume direct control...
...pitcher Don Nelson and his erring mates could do nothing right, Repetto breezed nonchalantly along, facing only thirty batters behind an air-tight defense. Nelson yielded five hits, eight walks and two wild pitches, the Brown catcher permitted seven stolen bases and the rest of the Bruins joined the fiasco with five miscues...
...criticized Dr. Oppenheimer on the grounds that he was an example of irresponsibility on the part of a prominent intellectual, and that his appointment as William James lecturer could only champion those groups which excuse and abet this kind of irresponsibility. The Pound controversy and Kamin-Furry fiasco are excellent illustrations of this. I do not in any way deny Dr. Oppenheimer's right to speak. I criticize his appointment as William James lecturer...
...going with Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra, on Nov. 5, 1954. to raid a building where Marilyn Monroe was spending the night (they broke into the wrong apartment). The detective's report, stolen or sold from the files, matched in every detail a leering account of the fiasco in the September 1955 issue of Confidential. (Also called. Sinatra denied under oath that he had participated in the actual raid.) Hollywood brass was so worried by the peephole press, said a third private eye, that major studios once considered raising a $350,000 war chest to fight the scandal magazines...
...pretty sorry spectacle. We feel sorry for almost everyone concerned. For Mr. Eisenhower, because he has a cough and hearing trouble; for Lennie, because he has a basic lack of security; and for the Republicans, because they are just beginning to recover from a similar fiasco in Cambridge. Fortunately, there is a way out. Mr. Eisenhower, who intimated that he had not found a federal post suitable for Hall, might consider having the present sheriff of Nassau County promoted, so that Len could get his old job back. That way everybody would be happy, or almost everybody...