Word: fiascos
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...Reces, a Mara Brothers fiasco, Orson Wells 4, 7:30, 11:15. With Night at the Opera...
James Earl Ray, the murderer of Martin Luther King Jr., is spending 30 days in a disciplinary cell to contemplate his losing ways. Ray's latest fiasco: a botched attempt to cut short his 99-year sentence at Tennessee's Brushy Mountain Penitentiary by carving a hole through the ceiling of a room near the auditorium. Last year he tried to make it through a steam tunnel which, unsurprisingly, turned...
...reached its peak of strength and unity in the years just following the 1949 takeover. But in the mid-1950s, Mao began launching his doomed experiments: the brief Hundred Flowers liberalization, which resulted in persistent "indiscipline" in the party ranks, and the Great Leap Forward, which was an economic fiasco. Mao's mistakes opened the way for challenges to his power by ambitious or disenchanted rivals. After the Great Leap stumbled in the late 1950s, Mao was rudely shouldered out of China's presidency by his own protege, Liu Shao-chi, who championed work incentives and other "revisionist...
...doughty Clarence Campbell, the image-conscious president of the National Hockey League, that free-swinging fiasco at the end of last season moved him to deliver a few stiff blows of his own. Slapping both teams with an unprecedented total of $16,550 in fines, he declared that their version of the Ice Follies "only makes us look stupid. We have considerable correspondence in our files protesting such behavior from grown men while young boys are watching on television...
...campaign was a fiasco. The Catholics of Ulster were not then prepared to support the I.R.A.; the government of Ireland in the South was unwilling to tolerate a military invasion of British territory from its soil. By 1962, utterly humiliated, the I.R.A. called off the campaign...