Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steamy heat. The speeches began, but nobody heard them-the loudspeaker system had failed. Electricians fingered frantically while tempers rose. Finally Nehru began to talk. After a few words the loudspeakers failed again. The Pandit raged at a frightened Indian electrician: "Foolish man!" The day fizzled out in fiasco...
...modern American Church school is the funniest thing in the land-or it would be if it were not the saddest . . . [it] is a tragic fiasco." Thus the late Bishop Fiske (Episcopalian) of Central New York once wrote to The Rev. Kenneth R. Forbes...
...kind of harassment, first by long- distance, later in person. Adding to the reeign of horror are the editor's commanding officer (Charles Evans) and his terrifying wife and mother-in-law. Dropping in one afternoon for cocktails, this formitable trio stages the year's funniest social fiasco...
...Corps had been used last month for an end-run landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist David Lawrence picked up the cry and shrilled about the "military fiasco at Okinawa ... a worse example of military incompetence than Pearl Harbor." He blamed the Navy's heavy losses, in ships and men, on the "bungling" which had prolonged the conquest...
While the Western Allies were belatedly liquidating their Flensburg fiasco, the Russians last week established a Berlin municipal council of German non-Communists and a few Communists (see below). In Vienna, the Russians had long since installed a national government headed by non-Communist Dr. Karl Rentier-and so far had ignored U.S. and British disapproval of this government...