Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teamed with Writer Charles Brackett, onetime drama critic for The New Yorker. Suave Charlie Brackett and rough Billy Wilder clicked right away. Wilder spewed Niagaras of notions, and in this prodigious stream of consciousness, Brackett fished for usable ideas. Together they wrote 14 films without a single flop, and some of their movies were among the biggest hits (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard) of the era. But in 1950 Brackett and Wilder broke up. Says Wilder: "Sometimes a match and the striking surface both wear out, and that's what happened to us." Says Brackett: "Billy had outgrown...
...though bent on slow-motion suicide, the man charged with responsibility for the murder of 6,000,000 Jews was eager to tell all, often asked for pencil and paper to enlarge his replies. With evident satisfaction, Israel's Chief Investigator Abraham Selinger reported that the thin, flop-eared ex-Gestapo leader-who had proclaimed that he would kill himself if he were ever captured-was the most "cooperative" suspect he had ever interrogated...
...Henry would still recognize. A fly-buzz quiet settles over the cobblestone streets of Tegucigalpa. Honduras; the weary bell of the city's crumbling, weather-stained cathedral gives out a few clunks, and toothless crones in black shawls shuffle inside. In Managua, Nicaragua, scrawny men, their shirttails out, flop gratefully in shady places in the plazas. In El Salvador, leaving some ornate mansion, a member of one of the 14 families that run the country glides by limousine to his club for an afternoon of bridge high above the sewer stink of acres of shacks. But before and after...
...that if it had planned for failure, it would not have acted much differently." Douglas said that by not selling the bonds, the Treasury "may gleefully think it has won a battle; but they are going to lose the war." He is probably right. Despite the bond flop, there seemed little chance that Congress this session will lift the 4¼% ceiling on bond issues of five years or longer...
...trip was a flop. Quadros was supposed to stay in Castro's Cuba six days. But when papers back home began calling him "irresponsible" and his statements of praise for Castro a "pact with the devil," it apparently dawned on him that Brazilians have no vast yearning to take their cues from a reckless government on a chaotic island that is only one-tenth as populous as their own country. Two days before his visit was supposed to end, he dashed off bread-and-butter messages to his hosts, climbed aboard a plane for safer terrain in Venezuela...