Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since the word "boycott" was coined after Captain Boycott's tyranny, why can't the word "randolph" be interpolated in the English language meaning a memory blank or a "blackout," as Mr. Randolph Churchill so suavely put it [at the end of his flop on the $64,000 Question] ? Perhaps students will now "randolph" their exams...
...Cordiner and virtually every other U.S. electronics manufacturer are well aware, color TV has turned out to be the most resounding industrial flop of 1956. The year started with the rusty prediction of RCA's Chairman David Sarnoff that up to 1,500,000 color sets would be in operation by mid-1956. As of last week, not more than 75,000 color receivers were in use (there are about 40 million black-and-white sets). Compared to black-and-white sales of 7,200.000 this year, color sales are scarcely a speck on the nation...
...island in the Caribbean or off the coast of Maine. But they seldom stick it out. For the tragedy of the modern Robinson Crusoe is that he cannot seem to shake off the hold of modern life. Was primitive man really happier? Is contemporary civilization really a flop? One of the finest fictional forays toward an answer is The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier, a Cuban-born writer who now lives in Venezuela...
Idealism or no, the speech was perilously close to a flop. Even the hired TV eye could not blink away the sight of an uninspired audience. Next day the Stevenson camp was blaming the teleprompters and the bad acoustics in the hall. But the Kefauverites were not so charitable, told each other and whoever wanted to listen that Adlai Stevenson had failed to land any solid political punches...
Hecht first saw Lancaster act in Burt's only stage venture, the 1945 Broadway flop A Sound of Hunting. They began talking independent production immediately, and two years later they had filmed the B-minus chiller Kiss the Blood off My Hands...