Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flop...
...place from which the players and their caddies had to exit the 17th green. "The man who leaves this green with the lowest score is gonna win the tournament," I said to a red-faced, red-eyed young man with a potbelly and glasses and a Budweiser flop hat who was sitting beneath the ropes...
Actually, the sales picture on the SX-70 is at worst a mixture of lights and shadows. The camera certainly cannot be called a flop; since it belatedly went into nationwide distribution last fall, more than 700,000 have been sold, an exceptionally big number for a high-priced new camera. The catch is that almost all sales are being made at discounts, some as deep as $65 below the list price of $180. Since stores buy the camera for $120 (less an $8 rebate for each one they sell), the SX-70 generates a slim retail profit at best...
...quixotic ventures that a young business man could dream up, the farthest-out would seem to be making automobiles. It has been 28 years since an American started an auto-manufacturing business from scratch - and that was a disastrous flop for Henry Kaiser. So meet Don Quixote - in the form of flamboyant Malcolm Bricklin, 35, a Phoenix, Ariz., resident who wears studded denims and bedecks himself with silver-and-turquoise jewelry...
...Flip-Flop. Win or lose, Sparling decided to stick with Nixon and issued a surprise invitation to the President to enter the fight himself. Nixon spent a day whooping up Republican support in the safe rural areas, acting at times as though he were the candidate while his host stood aside and listened. Nixon apparently helped Sparling a bit as a campaigner-but he had already lost him the race as an issue. Traxler took 51.4% of the vote, a startling flip-flop from the results in 1972, when the Republicans captured 59.3% of the ballots in the district...