Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans, of course, face a far worse problem. Mr. Dulles didn't have much to say in his campaign, and what he did say was managed at least as badly as Dewey's fiasco last year. The GOP will have to come up with a new program and new managers if it hopes to get back into power at all. It will have to stop harping on the welfare state, which is evidently a much overrated bugaboo. It will have to turn up some candidates whose virtues extend farther than smooth, untroubled faces and innocuous minds...
...cure everything. As it is being administered by the Cambridge Engineers Office at present, it is aimed at alleviating one or two of the more important problems that confront Harvard Square rather than solving the entire constipated traffic mixup. Though the first two days of the experiment was a fiasco, the City Engineer's Office last week, in conjunction with the State Engineering Office, installed a substantial number of stoplights, cross-walks and other innovations. The end result has been a safer but more complicated Harvard Square...
...fiasco he says: "I must have been out of my mind. I thought I'd just walk in and they'd point the camera at me. You have to cope with 16 people with things on their minds like making chalk marks on the floor . . . The director tells the cameraman to move to the right and he says, 'You mean your right or my right...
...understands the situation in China and the Far East has seen the move coming for more than two years. The people who cry now that the U. S. is responsible exhibit a complete failure to study the lesson which must be learned from Chiang Kai-Shek's costly fiasco...
...political corruption), by order of President Zachary Taylor. He was also widely known as the enthusiastic biographer of the inept and unlucky President Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne's praise of his friend Pierce was still ringing in men's ears when Pierce's administration collapsed in fiasco...