Word: flasco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being an Oriental country, we luckily have no qualms about "losing face" over a political situation. Any face that we might have saved was lost with the State Department's unprecedented white paper on China. Our Chinese policy has been a ghastly flasco, partly through our mistaken and partly beyond our control. The Communists have us just where they want us, and recognition is the best...
...University and the City of Cambridge charged with the task of keeping highways and byways clear for the pedestrian. But, with the annual reliability of the stadium ticket crisis and the Dean's Christmas-present reminder that New Year's Day ends vacationing, the snow and slush flasco has once again come upon the Square...
...start of the season; "we're hot," he reiterated last night. And he may be right. His charges have shattered the prognostications of all pre-season deposters, battering Navy, Army, Bowdoin, Wosleyan, and Amherst by substantial scores. They have sluffed off the stigma of last year's flasco season which found them bouncing around in the league cellar, unimpressive and untouted, and have forced Hub scribes to re-upholster their stock of Crimson tennis epithets with rubrics of enthusiasm and praise...
From the very outset the Princeton game was a flasco: In the first place, an 80 minute game instead of the usual 60 minute contest was played. This was quite legal, for in rugby the game may vary, with anywhere from 25 to 40 minute halves. At the end of 60 minutes of play, the score read 8-all; in the next 20 minutes the Crimson defense collapsed. The heavy Tiger scrum lorded over the Harvard forwards...
Suffering from an inferiority complex after last year's flasco season, primed with the alibi of no outdoor practice, the tennis team sailed into southern waters last week with all the odds against it. Team members hoped to make the four matches close; they didn't expect...