Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York boys are banking heavily on our success. If the Seattle World's Fair is a flop, they might as well quit. Fairs will have...
Then, for a few minutes, hope rose anew Borchard, scoring consistently on his patented driving flip-flop shot, led a surge that brought the Crimson to within three, 68-65, with three minutes remaining...
Locked on the Sun. But the shot was not a total flop. Ranger III was as crammed with electronic tricks as a barrel of transistor radios. Even though its launching had been faulty, it was cruising undamaged through space, its intricate apparatus still in working condition. Just 27 minutes after launch, Ranger's C.C. & S. (Central Computer and Sequencer) began issuing commands that had been stored in its electronic brain. Explosive pin-pullers released solar battery panels, which unfolded like the wings of a butterfly. At the same time, Ranger's dish-shaped, long distance radio antenna swung...
...first conference (the success) was called, or so the delegates to it imagined, to launch an Alliance for Progress, that is, a program to unite Latin America through social reform and economic development. The second (something of a flop) appeared at first to have a directly opposite purpose--For Cuba, as the State Department saw it, pervades Latin America much as the Devil occupied the New Testament herd of swine, and Mr. Rusk's proposed solution closely resembled the ancient one: to excise the Devil, you drive the herd into...
...This picture may flop in the States," says Darin's manager, "but Europe will eat it up." If Europe does, there's going to be an awful big burp...