Word: snafu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three countries has a different plan for Cyprus. The Greeks propose independence (they have recently muffled their cries for "enosis"). The Turks urge partition. And the British advocate a three-power government, "an adventure in partnership" as they call it. All of which adds up to a real snafu...
...that he was personally popular, and admired more than ever now for having shown the quality of luck. Had he been killed over Syria, however, Jordan might now be plunged into revolution, and the Middle East into war. This knowledge kept everyone from laughing too hard at the great snafu...
What this seemed to argue was that because Russia has greater resources it would take longer to achieve its economic goals. What it actually meant was that the economic snafu shown when the sixth five-year plan was sent back to the planners for downscaling (TIME, Jan. 7) has now grown so severe that the Russians no longer have any hope of meeting even their reduced targets...
...date and I, victims of this snafu, went to the Stadium in hopes that our tickets might be found there. All we found was Mr. Lunden sitting in a booth. When I told him I hadn't been able to get my tickets, he said with a dry laugh, "You're only one out of about 2000 students who haven't." To do him justice, he seemed upset by the picture of 2000 ticketless students, but not upset enough to have brought their tickets to the Stadium. Nor was he upset enough to let my date and me into...
...York Times story in Washington, I am content to stand on General Stratemeyer's recent statement that this is blaming a mistake on a dead man not in a position to reply. Nobody that I know denies somebody in the Pentagon released it, probably due to a snafu' reminiscent of "Who Promoted Peress?" ANSEL EDWARD TALBERT Military and Aviation Editor New York Herald Tribune New York City...