Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mishap hit the headlines back home, all Italy chuckled. Fanfani had hardly smoothed down his dignity and limped away when the next blow came. He found himself involved in a Hanoi "peace feeler" to the U.S. that turned out to be a dismal flop. Of course, he felt he was only doing his duty-that it was the responsibility of any statesman to pass along to the President of the U.S. the slightest intimation of an end to the bloody Viet Nam war. The folks back home, however, were less impressed than amused at this "amateur peacemaking." Particularly since Fanfani...
...been extensively checked on the ground, fired in a test stand, put in a vacuum chamber to simulate operating altitudes, started and restarted until all the glitches seemed gone. The fact is, says one of the country's top rocket-motor experts, that "sometimes these birds just flop-even though the chances are something like 9 in 10 that it won't happen...
...While fair participants were salvaging what they could, fair investors were licking their wounds. The day before closing, Robert Moses issued a grim report to stockholders. In spite of 51 million visitors, 6,000,000 more than any other world's fair, the fair had been a fiscal flop: Moses' calculations had been based on 70 million...
Reassurance Needed. Business plans this year to increase its overseas spending for plant and equipment by at least 20% (to $7.4 billion or more), which some take as proof that the Administration's vaguely worded appeal for "voluntary" restraint has been a flop. Reports of White House dissatisfaction with this approach, which had been advocated by Commerce Secretary John Connor, were so widespread that Lyndon Johnson had to reassure Connor of his continued confidence. The Secretary did some reassuring too. "Businessmen definitely are not letting me down," said Connor, who once warned that if he failed businessmen would "find...
Quick Response. The Administration executed a fast flip-flop in its position. It sent a phalanx of officials, including Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann and White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, to urge Selden to drop the resolution. If it passed, they said, Latin American nations might read it as an excuse for Americans to intervene at the least threat of Communist subversion, and some Latin strongmen might attempt to use it as a convenient justification for moving in on other countries. Selden stood fast, and the resolution breezed through the House...