Word: flop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only to go to that same god again. I wonder how many of them feel the contradiction this strongly. The army has been the source of the best leadership (both Turicos and Yon Sosa were U. S,-trained), but most are not close to such a flip-flop. For most young Indian men, the Army offers the only opportunity for dignity and a relatively decent life. Three meals a day, movie lectures at Ft. Gulick, the big PX in the Sky, fascinating, macho, Green Beret instructors, and most importantly, a gun, which any man, even a North American, will respect...
...Flop. Hughes' other passion was airplanes. He set a world speed record of 352.39 m.p.h. in 1935 in an aircraft of his own design. He was named the world's outstanding aviator for the year, and President Roosevelt later presented him with the Harmon Trophy. In 1938 he flew around the world in a record 91 hr. 14 min., was given a ticker-tape parade on Broadway that surpassed Lindbergh's. Hughes' big flop of World War II−a 200-ton, eight-engine plywood flying boat dubbed the "Spruce Goose," which was only...
...Jellyfish. Hoover was sufficiently annoyed to grant the Washington Post's Ken Clawson a rare and lengthy personal interview in his mahogany-walled bastion. Clark, said Hoover, "was like a jellyfish . . . a softie," and "even worse than Bobby Kennedy. You never knew which way he was going to flop on an issue." By contrast, said Hoover, Ramsey's dad, former Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, was "a good strong man." The best of all, however, is Attorney General John Mitchell-"an honest, sincere and very human...
...characterization, the 2000 Year Old Man, works over the largest territory, smashing the idols of all time. At one point he credits the Robin Hood legend to a press agent and explains that the altruistic robber actually "stole from everybody and kept everything." He reminds us of Shakespeare's flop play, "Queen Alexandra and Murray," which "closed in Egypt...
...tells her that, once she has made herself sexually exciting, he will come home to her every night. It tells the secretaries that they can have their pick of "some of the most interesting men in America," who will fall in love with them as soon as they flop into bed, and propose marriage shortly thereafter...