Word: mixups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shambles of confusion and denials. Then Casey explained things. "When I leave" meant "when I go home" to California as usual after the season. "When I get ready to go, I'll say so-in plain English." That incredible prediction pointed up the reason for the whole mixup: Casey had been talking to city hall reporters, who specialize in municipal prose, New York dialect; it is only the sportswriters, after all, who pretend to understand Stengelese...
...RATHER BE RICH. Another romantic mixup, another wayward heiress-but the familiar ingredients are whipped into a nice froth by Sandra Dee, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams, Hermione Gingold...
...airline had switched their reservations from first class to tourist on a flight to the U.S. The offended passengers, Senator Fernando Lopez and three members of his family, charged that Pan Am gave their seats to white passengers. In rejecting Pan Am's plea that the reservation mixup was an "honest mistake," the judge paid the airline a left-handed compliment: he could not believe, he said, that Pan Am, which advertises itself as the "world's most experienced airline," could make such a mistake unintentionally...
...pieces attempt to represent what six authors--Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Wilde, Odets and Williams--might have done with commonplace dramatic themes: love and letters, cuckolds and cash-on-the-line weddings. The "typical Shakesperian clown engages in a "typical" mixup of missives. The deranged Blanche du Bois figure in the Williams parody imagines a Spanish pen pal to take her from the beer-and-beatings world of her Stanley Kowalski type mate...
Harvard could not clear the puck out of their own sone, and Harold Pettersen took advantage of the sloppy play, scoring from a mixup in front of the Crimson net. Brian Wilkinson and Adams earned assists...