Word: fiascos
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While the Western Allies were belatedly liquidating their Flensburg fiasco, the Russians last week established a Berlin municipal council of German non-Communists and a few Communists (see below). In Vienna, the Russians had long since installed a national government headed by non-Communist Dr. Karl Rentier-and so far had ignored U.S. and British disapproval of this government...
Though not claiming to have got everything right, I have historical justification for my guesses as well as my facts: for example, the marriage-night fiasco can be deduced positively from a variety of lesser sources and negatively from the ideal account of Adam and Eve's honeymoon in Paradise Lost...
...face of things, U.S. intervention had been a serio-comic failure. But it was not a fiasco. The U.S. principle was on record, in a specific case: that provisional governments have only provisional power until their people have a chance to speak...
After last week's fiasco in which our efforts appeared under two titles, Lucky Bag and Double Talk, we have mustered courage enough to drown our indignation and again dip the Parker for the SERVICE NEWS...
...fiasco failed to dim either Merola's enthusiasm or his dark-eyed powers of persuasion. In 1923, backed by a $35,000 advance sale and $25,000 from the members of Nob Hill's rich Pacific Union Club, Merola launched his first regular season...