Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the shift to disk jockey programs, the wail set up by Bostonians was enough to prove the popularity of an all-music station. Former assistant manager John R. Thornton has taken advantage of this to set up a new station, WXHR on the FM band, using the WBMS fiasco as a guide...
After last Saturday's fiasco on Memorial filed one wonders what has become of the vaunted Dartmouth "spirit." There is no reason for a team to knock itself out on the field when the stands sit shivering tearing up programs or rubbing their cold hands together...
...Norfolk Fiasco. Not till the war came did they try their hand at mass production. Near Norfolk, Va. they laid long, roadlike strips of concrete for foundations, then erected walls and roofs over them to form 1,600 squat houses that were little more than shacks. The development was a flop and about 230 of the units are now empty. More successful were 757 houses the Levitts built in Norfolk for the Navy. This success convinced them that low-priced houses could be profitably mass-produced. But the idea was temporarily shelved in 1943, when Bill Levitt joined the Seabees...
...prayer about it," said Majority Leader Scott Lucas, ". . . that somehow we who serve here in the Senate . . . will harmonize and unite." He was talking about foreign policy, making his plea at the end of a day of bitter debate, of argument over who was responsible for the China fiasco and continuing Republican charges that the State Department was to blame. Those charges were "a base slander," Texas' white-maned old Tom Connally had shouted. "Where, at the appropriate time, were the voices that now proclaim their virtues and their schemes?" The voices were there, the Republicans shouted back...
...settled with his wife and three children, Pierre, Jeanne and Colette, Streit watched the collapse of Wilson's dream of world peace. Now disillusioned, he watched as the League gagged over the march of the Japs into Manchuria in 1931, as the 1932 Disarmament Conference ended in a fiasco, as the London Economic Conference wheezingly expired. He listened as the hot winds of Naziism roared through Germany. The underlying theme of the history which he reported in long, earnest dispatches to the Times was always the same-the disunity and ineffectiveness of the democracies in meeting the crises...