Word: fobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fight & Frolic. With such heady hopes, the 1960 Democratic nomination is something far more than a token to fob off on anyone who will take it. Rather, it seems, in the glowing days of 1958 Democratic victory, the richest prize in U.S. politics-a prize worth fighting for. And Democrats being Democrats, loving a fight as much as a frolic, the battle for the 1960 nomination shaped up as one of the grandest, free-swinging rough-and-tumbles in years...
...attitude of the entire Soviet leadership, but only of a section which had imposed its will on the others." In the end, to help them all out, Tito was willing to give his blessing to a tough character named Erno Gero whom the Russians wanted to fob off as a "Titoist" to ease the discontent in Hungary. It was Gero who first ordered the army to fire on the Hungarian rebels...
...said: "The text of my lecture for tonight is 'Bread and Circuses.'" He harked back to the way the declining Roman emperors had taken Rome's mind off its troubles with gladiators and spectacles; he was disturbed, he said, that the Republicans might be trying to fob off Eisenhower upon "a docile, complacent, carefree people all happily chanting 'Peace, Prosperity and Progress-ain't it wonderful.' " Candidate Stevenson obviously felt he had a point: little outward concern was shown by the nation as a whole for the problems of its parts (in drought-dried...
Wintle's War. He fought his superiors in World War II when they tried to fob him off with draft duties instead of action. "He became a little bit of a nuisance," admitted Field Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside. When France tottered, Wintle became exasperated at official in action; he called an airfield, told them he was speaking for the Air Ministry, and ordered a plane readied to fly him to Bordeaux. His plan: to get his French mili tary friends to fly the French air force out to Britain. Hauled up before an air commodore for this escapade, Wintle...
...sentimentality in favor of movement and daughter; Cyril Ritchard turned Captain Hook ( "the swiniest swine of them all") into a Pirate of Penzance with a fine mixture of cringe and gusto. Of the two sponsors (total payout: $450,000), Ford made palatable its light-touch commercials; RCA tried to fob off Vaughn Monroe in a fantasy of its own and suffered by contrast. After a look at the size of the audience (an estimated 65 million) NBC announced that it will stage a second production of Peter Pan at Christmastime...