Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Batchelor had started to worry about his own hide: the other Americans suspected him of wavering, and had taken away most of his powers as compound leader. He knew what might happen next. So Claude Batchelor, who had flipped like a trained seal from democracy to Communism, prepared to flop right back again...
King of the Khyber Rifles (20th Century-Fox) may be the first CinemaScope production to justify a recent Hollywood wisecrack: "The wider they come the harder they flop." King is a routine Tyrone Power costume adventure set in 1857. Spread out on the enormous CinemaScope screen, it forces the actors to shout love at each other about as intimately as opponents on a tennis court, and the audience gets a neck ache following the conversational ball...
These decisions so effectively barred wiretap evidence from federal courts that the Justice Department practically gave up even trying to get convictions where critical evidence had been obtained by wiretapping. But apart from making evidence inadmissible. Section 605 has been a flop as an anti-wiretapping law. Only in one case has anyone ever been convicted under the section, and that was not a wiretap case.* Since the FBI does a lot of tapping, the Justice Department has not even tried to enforce Section 605 against wiretappers. Courts have had little occasion to decide whom Section 605 prohibits from doing...
...course, I loaded the script with four-letter words"). NBC went even further: Sherwood got free run of the set, and the actors (Thomas Mitchell, Wendell Corey, Yvonne de Carlo, Gene Lockhart) were to listen to and obey all his instructions. Sighed Sherwood: "If it's a flop, it's my own damn fault...
...Taft-Hartley Act attempted to break Communist control of unions by requiring officers of labor unions to sign non-Communist affidavits before their unions could be certified as bargaining agents. This section in the law has been a flop. Officers of Communist-run unions have simply resigned formally from the party, signed an affidavit, then continued their Red activities as before. Nevertheless, the NLRB has been ordered by the courts to take the affidavits at face value and to certify the unions...