Word: fiascoes
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Here, as pieced together by TIME correspondents, is how the fiasco unfolded...
...most publicized fiasco was Clark's promise that he would move the Canadian embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, the city where most Western countries, including the U.S., maintain their diplomatic missions. Clark's proposal was calculated to attract Jewish votes in several key Toronto districts, but once in office he backed down after Arab nations threatened economic reprisals against Canada. A pledge to lower taxes also went by the board when the Tories belatedly concluded that this would add to the government's deficit and stimulate inflation. To get off the hook, Clark claimed that...
...beginning of the end of the society's national prominence came in 1965, when the Republican Party steering committee, still smarting from the Goldwater "extremism in the defense of liberty" fiasco, condemned Welch and his group. Welch had offended nearly everyone by then, especially with his call for complete and unilateral American withdrawal from Vietnam in 1965. By Welch's peculiar reasoning, Communists were running both sides of the war, and the United States was paying for it. A last gasp of attention came in the late '60s, as a result of a campaign more renowned for its slogan than...
...Dull." A voice from the other table says, "What was that, I didn't hear." "Well I'm in this course, see...). It goes beyond having to cook for 25 people, a feat that can terrorize the neophyte (as it did me) and even occasionally end in a culinary fiasco. It's the spirit of cooperation, of shared work and records and dope and lives. Maybe it's the spirit of Wilbur K. himself, checking on things...
...expected sell-out crowd of more than 3000, and maybe even themselves. They're talking upset: but a well-played competitive loss would be enough to raise expectations that this year's version of Harvard hockey, the youngest ever, can improve on last year's 7-18-1 fiasco...