Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conceived as a rebellion, it was a flop. But if it was a publicity stunt, it was imbued with idealism and conducted with a flamboyance that forced the world's attention on an issue that the world had long ignored...
...Marshall Field III. Heir to a department store fortune accumulated by his grandfather, the senior Field was also a fervent New Dealer and devotee of liberal causes. He founded his paper mainly to give battle to McCormick's ultraconservative, Roosevelt-baiting Tribune. The paper was something of a flop. By 1950, after turning the Sun into a tabloid, merging it with the Chicago Times and spending $10 million of his own money, the elder Field had succeeded only in evoking the colonel's amusement ("Marshall Field is an authority on horse racing, yacht racing and grouse shooting...
...musicians expect the coming tour to be considerably more successful than their 1950 effort, which was, Delbanco remarked, "An incredible flop--we went everlastingly into debt." He based his optimism on "greater enthusiasm among the players and vastly improved aid," principally from Harvard Clubs...
...young man's autobiography did not follow the plot. Although Mailer continued to write prodigiously, he never again came close to his first great acclaim. Barbary Shore, his second novel, was a flop. His third, The Deer Park, a study of the tribal sex practices of Hollywood, was a bestseller largely because the word got around that it was dirty (it was), but the critics frowned. By the time his Advertisements for Myself-a threadbare collection of past and future projects, loosely stitched together with some narcissistic autobiographical notes-appeared, late last year, it was all too clear that...
...season long, the stubby little coach had worked over his beefy team with the blunt tongue he had developed as a paratrooping major in World War II. Nothing helped. Though undefeated, Syracuse squeaked through game after game, was the flop of the football year because it seemed to be living on its reputation as last year's national champion. Last week Coach Ben Schwartzwalder even threatened to demote some of his stars, including 215-lb. Fullback Art Baker, a preseason All-America candidate. Snapped Coach Ben: "If any of you boys sulk about being put on the second team...