Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Algeria's Minister Resident Robert Lacoste hurried back to Paris for consultations. His policy of reform-dissolving the old French-dominated municipal councils with a view to new elections-had proved a flop. No Arab was willing to present himself as a candidate, and the colons viewed any concession as a threat. Chief French worry was that the new terrorism might arouse the colons to savage retaliation before the U.N. debate. Said Lacoste: "Keeping cool is becoming an act of heroism...
...Will Flop." Both chambers of commerce and corporations try conscientiously to answer the letters they get. Up to a point, they welcome and even encourage the letter-writing habit on the theory that today's pupils will be tomorrow's customers and tourists. But the whole thing is getting out of hand. Says William H. P. Smith of the Boston chamber: "We're just swamped with this mail from kids. Most of the information they ask for they could find in any World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director...
...them through school. As one California fifth-grader wrote: "Will you Please send me some pitures of Pennsylvania Because I'am study Pennsylvaina In school. I need pictues of Penn. very bad. So please send me some pictures. If I don't get some picturs I will flop in school...
Winchell, who sometimes has trouble adjusting to reality, called a press conference to announce the news. Later he said: "The sponsors loved the show. I've never had a flop. I've never lost a sponsor in my life. I've been on the air 29 years. I said to Bobby Sarnoff, the president of NBC, I says 'Bobby, you knew from the beginning I didn't want to go back to small time. I never asked to do this show.''' In the true show-must-go-on spirit, ex-Hoofer Winchell...
...plus membership makes it the dominant power of French labor, to pull a nationwide, one-day strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt. Out of 600,000 metal and auto workers in the notorious "Red Belt" around Paris, only 3,000 obeyed the C.G.T. summons, and even they returned to work after half an hour. At the Simca factory...