Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died needlessly because of Slater's viciousness and Bullivant's weakness...
After last year's fiasco, anything the tennis team does this year will be a pleasant surprise. And they may do plenty...
...Arab world, trust of the U.S. had "gone down from 108% to 8%" as a result of the tragic fiasco of U.S. policy on the Palestine issue...
...time; in Chicago. Anti-Semitic Mrs. Dilling made her first big noise in 1934 with her finger-pointing book, The Red Network (among the "Reds" she discovered: William Allen White, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Eleanor Roosevelt), more recently starred in person as a defendant in the noisy 1944 Sedition Trial fiasco...
...they had made the gesture, and the "weak" De Gasperi government had been able to overcome it. Collapse of the strike, however, did not mean that Communist power in Italy was broken or even badly bent. Conservative Rome was not the Red stronghold. Yet the Rome fiasco cost the Communists face, and partially freed De Gasperi from the constant threat of veto action by Communist-led unions against government policies...