Word: unstuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Augusta last week was cold, rainy and damp by turns, and though Ike got in a couple of rounds of soggy golf, the trip was not much of a vacation. Even before he could swing a club he got the news that his summit plans were coming unstuck and he called a press conference at Augusta's Richmond Hotel for next morning...
...Like his cousin Peggy Guggenheim, Harold found the climate of wealth intellectually suffocating, the security guilt-edged. After working in a construction gang in Alberta and tending a bookstore, Harold found himself, in 1921, by founding Broom. Names famed and forgotten spill from Author Loeb's pages like unstuck pictures from a family album. There was Ezra Pound, "dressed like one of Trilby's companions" in "black velvet jacket and fawn-colored pants"; James Joyce, dour and uncommunicative on everything but French provincial cooking (he loved it); and Tristan Tzara, the papa of Dada, leading his esthetic Bolsheviks...
...fight, he could take a guideline from the London Observer's appraisal of Foster Dulles: "We have come to appreciate how enormously important it is for the man leading the strongest nation in the world to understand the relationship between strength and morality. Without that, everything could come unstuck...
...Roman soldiers but such as Cortes' men had worn when he brought the cross and sword to Mexico 435 years before. It was the annual Passion play* of Tlaltenalco, and there were tourists, who did not fail to note that Manuel's beard was paper. It came unstuck and fell off somewhere along his Via Dolorosa...
Even so, the settlement came unstuck -and another letter, dated Dec. 4, 1953, came from the FTC to Northfield, charging mislabeling. This letter so bewildered Bernard Goldfine, said he in sworn testimony, that he took it to his friend Sherman Adams to find out what it was all about. Adams then called FTC Chairman Edward Howrey, received in return a memo from Howrey that passed on advice on how the matter might be settled...