Word: squibbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dallas lineman Randy White fumbled Roy Gerela's squib kickoff while trying to lateral and Dennis "Dirt" Winston recovered for Pittsburgh...
...stock market plummeted, the recently resuscitated pound slipped again and the Liberals began to mutter threats of ending their pact with the Labor Party unless Healey came up with some bigger tax cuts. Reflecting the general mood of Britons, Conservative M.P. William Clark scowled: "The budget is a damp squib...
Volcanically speaking, the eruption of Vesuvius on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, was a squib compared with the more recent explosions of Krakatoa or Mont Pelée. But no seismic event has ever had wider cultural repercussions. Buried under 12 ft. of deadly ash and scoriae, the city of Pompeii-a flourishing town on the Bay of Naples, filled with rich men's villas, tradesmen's houses and the workshops of the poor-was in the moment of its snuffing-out turned into the most complete social time capsule left by the Roman world. Since major excavations...
Toinette, however, is quite well done by Robin Leidner. As it says in the short biographic squib in the program, she has played the servant in other plays; and she does it again here with a good feel for the humor of the character...
...Columbia Masterworks has released the entire six-lecture series as a set of 17 records. They do so "with special pride," according to a squib on the back of the box. Columbia's promotion of the lectures has played heavily on Harvard's prestige, and on the prestige of Bernstein's predecessors in the Norton Poetry chair, who include Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and e.e. cummings, as well as such composers as Stravinsky, Sessions, and Hindemith...