Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shultz would agree that the U.S. should slow development of the President's cherished space-based Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Shultz would not oblige him, and the summit appeared to be off. But after seeming to brood about the matter for a few days, Gorbachev performed an amazing flip-flop: he dispatched Shevardnadze to Washington with a letter for Reagan that put the plans back in motion. Said a Soviet-affairs expert: "This is a real embarrassment for him. He's had to fly Shevardnadze here just to deliver the mail...
Ford was serious about using the family name for worthy causes. After the Detroit race riots in 1967 left 43 dead, Ford headed an effort to find jobs for blacks. He lent his name and money to the building of Detroit's Renaissance Center, a financial flop that lost an estimated $140 million in its first four years and had to be refinanced...
...machinations of a George Steinbrenner-Billy Martin flip-flop, if not quite all the drama...
Parker, the first famous American woman humorist, probably inspired more awe -- and more imitative bad manners -- than any other female of her day. She remains one of the best-known brand names in literature, although nowadays hardly anyone reads her short stories, her flop plays, her mostly slight and bitchy journalism or more than a handful of her poems, most of which depend on the confectionery trick of concealing a goo of sentimental self-pity beneath a brittle crust...
Above all, will the new young superstars continue their 1986 success or will they flop? These are questions the next six months will answer...