Word: snafu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting ships could not get within miles of Dunkirk's beach. Parma had only a few rotting barges to bridge the distance. But as things turned out, the Duke never had his chance to drown because the Armada, intercepted by the British, never got near Dunkirk. This monumental snafu is typical of one of history's most inept naval campaigns...
Tragedy and Snafu. Able will now be stuffed. At the suggestion of Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas, she will be exhibited at Independence, her officially claimed birthplace, then moved to a permanent showplace in Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
Unhappily, this tragedy was not the only snafu involving Able. Two explanations had been officially offered for the failure of the attempt to test Able's reactions in flight by having her press a button when a red light flashed. First explanation was that the reaction instrument failed to work. Then it was explained that last-minute tests of the button circuit showed that it was setting up interference in other circuits and it had therefore been turned off. Last week word leaked out that neither explanation was correct. Truth was that Able was a substitute off the space...
...will take its place among the new miracles of People's China - alongside the 330-lb. sweet potato and a marvelous plant that allegedly grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below. But of all the wonders boasted by Red China, none can beat the economic snafu created by Peking's planners in the past year...
...reassuring to know that the United States can send a satellite, albeit a diminutive sphere in comparison to the Russian planet, around the sun. It is not so heartening to read about the snafu which resulted in "losing" the mute and more mundane "Discoverer I," the first polar satellite...