Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fish for bream. At night they swarmed into Gulfport's nightspots to gamble at the tables and ogle the show girls. There was little work for the unit's recreation officer. Said he: "Last year I tried to organize a softball league. It was a real flop. They were all at the beach, or fishing-or someplace. They didn't need any more recreation...
...much-heralded three-day general strike, called by the leaders of South Africa's 10,807,809 blacks to protest any change in the nation's status, was a flop. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the man who had forged the republic and would be its boss, had canceled all police leaves, called up 5,000 armed reservists of the Citizen Force, and ordered the arrest of thousands of potential native troublemakers. As Republic Day approached, police in armored cars rumbled menacingly through native townships. At night, helicopters with searchlights hovered overhead on the lookout for illegal gatherings...
...influenza epidemic and George S. Kaufman's first play opened in Manhattan in 1918, and the play was vastly less contagious. With dour glee, the 28-year-old writer went around advising people to avoid crowds-see Someone in the House." The flop was satisfying proof to Kaufman of "the gross inadequacies of the human race"-from which, as his collaborator Moss Hart observed, the playwright suffered daily. But he mined his suffering profitably; over the years he produced more memorable wisecracks and more hit comedies than anyone else in the U.S. theater. Last week. Kaufman died...
...America Quarterback and Third Baseman Jake Gibbs signed with the New York Yankees for a $100,000-plus bonus. It was the largest bonus ever paid by the Yankees, topping the old record of $75,000 paid to Pitcher Ed Cereghino in 1951. Cereghino was a flop...
...Olympic Flop. Born in Kingston, 22-year-old Sprinter Johnson ran the 100 in 11.5 sec. at the age of twelve, and caught the eye of Jamaican Track Star Herb McKenley. The ex-Olympian painstakingly tutored Johnson for six years, coached him to Jamaican high school records of 9.6 sec. in the 100, 21.1 sec. in the 220, and 50.7 sec. in the 440. In 1959 he entered Bakersfield (Calif.) College, and cut his running times to a creditable 9.4 sec. in the 100, 20.6 in the 220. Unhappy with his poor showing in the 1960 Olympics-he started sloppily...