Word: fiascoes
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...playing take on considerably more life. There is some funny pantomime, notably of the producer and two of his associates wolfing their first square meal in days. But there is never the faintest approach to pandemonium; and though the third act is not, like the first, a fiasco, it is run-of-the-mine entertainment...
...little wonder that the Dining Halls wished to avoid publicity on the sign-off fiasco. It is arbitrary, needless, and inequitable. Anyone who wished to travel home on long weekends, or leave College after his last spring exam, or get a change of atmosphere between terms faces culinary double jeopardy. Unless, of course, he takes along box lunches...
...might have won the war. Only two American generals win Ward's unqualified approval as battle leaders: Benedict Arnold, who led troops with "headlong energy . . . intrepidity and dash," and Nathanael Greene, who showed himself a master of guerrilla tactics in the southern campaign after Horatio Gates proved a fiasco...
...Conspiracy to Vote. But why had the carefully staged election turned out to be such a grievous surprise to the junta? Information smuggled out through the censorship indicated that the fiasco was engineered deliberately by Alberto Carnevali, underground commander of Acción Democrática, the majority party which was booted from power and outlawed by the junta four years ago. Carnevali had kissed off the election as a hopeless farce. He had advised A.D. men to go to the polls, as the law requires, but cast blank ballots. But gradually, through A.D.-de-coded government telegrams, he deduced...
...shuttle rockets - to say nothing of his space station-would be a reckless leap into the blind future, like trying to build a B-36 out of the engines and wing sections used in World War I. The inevitable outcome, he thinks, would be a gigantic fiasco...