Word: flopped
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Right Face. Other Marxian imports are the nationalized foreign trade agencies. They also have proved a flop, the evidence being bare shop shelves and the sagging value of the Guinean franc. Toure has been forced to trim the power of the state import monopoly, allowing private traders to handle some foreign goods. This right face has led to a sharp split in Guinea's Politburo between Sekou Toure, who seems to be willing to try anything provided it pays off, and his militant half-brother Ismael, who thinks Marxism is the answer to every problem...
Kelley and Oksanen quickly shook off early challengers, only to pick up a stubborn new competitor-a flop-eared black dog that stayed with them for 14 miles, intermittently skittered across the road, nipped at the racers' heels, and stubbornly eluded state troopers who tried to lure him off the course. At the 16-mile mark, the mongrel charged at Oksanen, who swerved suddenly and caused Kelley to trip and fall. Sprawled on the road with a skinned elbow and knee, a bleeding hand and a grit-stained face, Kelley got a helping hand from Fellow Runner Fred Norris...
Tenth: The worst team in baseball history has Bennie Daniels and Dick Donovan as top starters, aging Gene Woodling as the big star, and a complete flop in the person of Danny O'Connell to lead the infield. The new Washington Senators haven't got a prayer...
...Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 88, laboriously and lengthily prepared for his massive, passive, sit-down demonstration in favor of unilateral British nuclear disarmament. (The new creed: "I'd rather be Red than dead ") When the great day finally came last weekend, the Gandhiose effort was a bit of a flop. When his silent horde of 3,000 arrived outside the Ministry of Defense to squat on the cold pavement, the box formation of 400 bobbies perversely refused to touch a soul. When the Russell forces prepared to tack their anti-nuclear declarations to the Ministry door, the police talked them...
...among them: John Smith saving Pocahontas, four playing cards, high school hurdlers in a track meet), tried to guess the picture they were in. Discussing the vagaries of show business, Gleason asked rhetorically how it was possible for a group of trained people to put on so big a flop. "If this happened in a hospital . . . " He might also have asked how it was possible for one of TV's funniest performers (in the great days of The Honeymooners) to accept a mere M.C.'s part in an elaborate parlor game. At any rate, he nobly exonerated...