Word: snafu
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...apparently a well-established rule that the quality which makes plays successful on Broadway is largely lost when those plays are transferred to the medium of motion pictures. Columbia's adaptation of "Snafu" is no exception to the rule, though it is a more faithful duplication of the original than is usually the case...
Pigeon-holed in committee, tied up in Congressional snafu or put off until next year were...
...Snafu. To make all this worse, the housing muddle was no nearer a solution than it had been on V-J day. With Government controls removed, the bulk of available labor and materials were going into industrial building. Only 37,000 houses had even been started; many had not got beyond the foundations...
Regardless of current snafu and individual injustices, it was possible last week to see the shadow of the postwar Army & Navy...
...first time in his life-and for the first visit of a U.S. President to Britain since Woodrow Wilson's triumphal tour in 1919. There were few Britons on hand to cheer Harry Truman. "Operation Exodus" (the military-code designation for the visit) had unavoidably run into a snafu. Ground haze prevented the scheduled landing at another field. Thus the route that Harry Truman took into Plymouth was largely unpeopled. From Queen Anne's Battery, near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers departed for America in 1620, the President and his party went promptly to the U.S.S...