Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STRATEGY Second Flop The second phase of the big Chinese spring offensive was as much of a bloody failure as the first...
...Churchill last week turned his old phrasemaking genius on Attlee & Co. Most striking Churchillisms: "Mr. Attlee [leads] that cluster of lionhearted limpets, a new phenomenon in our natural history . . . who are united by their desire to hold on to office at all costs . . . Our affairs drift and bump and flop...
Like New Zealand's Jack Lovelock, Miler Bannister looks more like a bookworn medical student (which he is) than a crack athlete. Bannister was a flop at cross-country, but the first time he tried the mile he turned in a creditable 4:30. A fortnight ago, as a warmup for his second U.S. showing (the first: as a 1949 member of the combined Oxford-Cambridge squad), he reeled off a whippet-fast three-quarters in 2:56.8, just missing (by .2 sec.) the world's fastest three-quarters, run by Sweden's Arne Andersson...
...Something Important." Some critics argue that Actress Bel Geddes was a downright flop in pictures. The fact is that she was neither a success nor a failure. As the daughter in Mama, Barbara did well enough to be nominated for an Oscar.† She was distinctive in none of her pictures, but in none was she disastrous. Like a diamond in the wrong setting, she seemed simply to have lost the special radiance that marked her on the stage. In the proper setting, the radiance was quick to return...
...Mannix was a flop at Annapolis. On review, his uniform and brace were technically correct, but the total effect reminded the commandant of somebody "going duck hunting." The Mannix temperament was incorrigibly informal for Annapolis, and the Navy gave up at the end of his plebe year (1932). Dan Mannix found a new vocation for himself-and the makings of a lively little book-when he stopped to watch Flamo, the fire-eater, in a traveling carnival show...