Word: snafus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told he could not transfer to Fort Lee after all; the supply units were incompatible. He was unable to get a job anywhere near Fort Lee, nor could Elayne transfer to New Mexico. Richard even tried to transfer to the Army-to no avail. Exasperated by months of snafus, Richard resigned from the Air Force and joined Elayne at Fort Lee. There he eventually found a job as a salesman in a department store. No sooner had he done so than the Army transferred her to West Berlin on an "unaccompanied tour," with no accommodation for a spouse. Richard went...
...Germans had a few brilliant successes, their World War II flops and snafus were incessant and eventually fatal...
...morning departure period, 40 jetliners idled their engines in a serpentine queue for as long as two hours before finally getting permission to take off. Isolated instances? Not at all. Across the U.S. last week, airports were clogged with unparalleled throngs of passengers and hit by unprecedented numbers of snafus and snarls...
...amazed European journalist noted, "an organization miracle." For a country where snafus are accepted miseries of everyday life, last week's national elections in Indonesia - following a tense campaign in which a dozen were killed and hundreds were arrested - went off with remarkable smoothness. Almost all of Indonesia's 70 million eligible voters trooped uneventffully to the polls to elect 360 members of a new parliament - in addition to 100 members appointed by President Suharto.* At week's end, the ballots were still being counted, but Suharto's military-backed Golkar, a "functional group" of professionals...
Since all the action takes place on a single set, lighting is very important, and, despite occasional technical snafus, for the most part it works well. One minor quibble: More's wife and daughter, if not More himself, should have been allowed a change of costume after their fall into penury...