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Word: fiascoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced that it will help foot the bill for testing an alternate, nonnuclear gas recovery scheme called hydraulic fracturing. Employing high-pressure fluids rather than explosions to crack the gas-bearing sandstone, the test will take place only about a mile from the site of the multikiloton Rio Blanco fiasco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Blank for Blanco | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...tonight at 8 p.m. in Watson Rink, it will be facing the Yale squad that demolished it, 6-1, last weekend in New Haven. The team will skate against a Yale senior, Ken MacKenzie, who looked more like a brick wall than a goaltender in last Saturday's fiasco...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Icemen Get a Rematch With McKenzie | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

Harvard's varsity came out with the most points in an athletic fiasco that was billed as a basketball game, when they beat Cornell, 79-67, last night...

Author: By Ronald W. Wade, | Title: Big Red Sinks in IAB, 79-67 | 2/23/1974 | See Source »

...confident that a victorious Germany would benignly liberate Ireland. He made his way to Berlin, where he soon found that the German government consisted of "swine and cads." His attempt to recruit Irish soldiers captured by the Germans and dragoon them into fighting the British proved a wretched fiasco-and even his hosts showed their distaste for the notion of tampering with soldiers' loyalties. In the days of Verdun and Jutland, there were, after all, 250,000 Irish volunteers fighting on the Allied side. Casement nevertheless persuaded the Germans to ship arms to Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imparfit Gentil Knight | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

Once again the Crimson Sports Department reaches back for some sporting news during exam period, and once again the only thing we can come up with is a second annual sports quiz which is more subjective and less enlightening than last year's fiasco...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: The Second Annual Crimson Cube Sports Quiz | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

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