Word: fiascos
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Last week Karras did his show in a Santa Clans costume, but his tone was still closer to Scrooge. In a lefthanded defense of spectators who boo pro football teams, he said: "If guys are dumb enough to fork over $7 to see this fiasco, then let 'em boo." Karras, who was suspended from football for the 1963 season for betting on the games, still insists that the real reason he was dismissed by the Lions was that "I've always been critical of the Lions' front office. They do a lousy...
...measure of U.S. concern was evident when Bunker hastened to Washington for several days of talks. It was decided that Bunker should warn Thieu "on the highest authority"-meaning straight from Richard Nixon-that the Administration would be deeply disturbed if the election turned into a fiasco. Congress, Bunker was to emphasize, might balk at continuing aid to Saigon if Thieu ran unopposed...
...show of strength on America's doorstep would bring concessions on Russia's border, or at least so Khrushchev thought. Karol emphasizes that Khrushchev lied to make Castro believe America was ready to invade again, scaring the Cubans into accepting Russian military protection. As a result of the fiasco, Cuban-Russian relations soon deteriorated...
...factor in decision-making leads the reader to believe that blind whim and guerrilla zeal govern Casaros administration. Dumont should have realized that many apparently irrational economic decisions can be understood by other, especially political, criteria: most notably the naive goal-setting which produced last year's sugar harvest fiasco...
...reference to youths convicted of draft evasion and crimes related to radical activities. The letter indicates that the writer had no illusions that the demands would be met. But if the plot were not attempted, it said, someone else might do it "badly," and it would "end in fiasco or violence & killing...