Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unpredictable New England weather can do more than ruin practices, however. As Coach Lee said yesterday, "The weather's never any bargain....last year it was a fiasco. Most of the matches were played in the rain...
...depth and consistency of this year's Crimson golf team promises that it will avert fiasco--whether it's raining...
...first defendant to plead guilty was E. Howard Hunt, 54, a former White House consultant and longtime CIA official who played a prominent part in the planning of an earlier fiasco, the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. At first Hunt offered to plead guilty to only three of the six charges against him, but under pressure from Judge Sirica he agreed to include...
Earlier, after Brando had taken over the direction of a picture in which he was already starring, One-Eyed Jacks (thereby doubling the budget and schedule), he had announced that "acting is a bum's life. Quitting acting is the mark of maturity." After the Bounty fiasco, there were those who were ready to agree with him. In a 1966 article, Pauline Kael lamented that Brando had lapsed, like John Barrymore before him, into a "self-parodying comedian...
...Bich is best known for his fiasco in the 1970 America's Cup Race; his sloop France, which he captained, got lost in the fog off Newport. He speaks in aquatic terms even when describing his company: "We just try to stick close to reality, like a surfer to his board. We don't lean forward or backward too far or too fast. We ride the wave at the right moment." Bic is now skimming along the crest of a 72% sales increase over the past five years. The baron hopes that with the disposable Bic lighter another...