Word: disappointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legitimate theater since he entered the White House. That was in New York to pick up his wife after My Fair Lady. He saw the musical's last 15 minutes. But last night at the White House some of the top hits' leading players were willing to disappoint their paying customers to perform before a President of the United States who has not, as yet, deigned to cross a street to see their fellow Equity players...
...past few years Harvard fans had shown great reluctance to see a basketball game. The exhibition of play was such as to disappoint and even antagonize the most rabid court followers...
...world . . . only to break that hope." Then, with tears in his eyes he moved into a peroration that the Senate knew was colored by the loss of his naval-aviator son in World War II. "If the free people of this globe lose confidence in us, we shall disappoint the best hopes of mankind−and we shall utterly fail to justify the sacrifices of our heroic dead, who have died in nearly all lands and have been swallowed up by the blue waters of nearly all oceans...
...full five-year term which will not fall into the abyss of government marked by precariousness and instability." Raising his voice, he added, "From the people I deserve confidence, and I ask that they wait for the results of my work ... I shall not fail your trust nor disappoint your hopes...
Many experts outside Hungary concede that Sandor & Co., given a little help from some less talented trackmen, will not disappoint their countrymen: Hungary may be a small onion in the international goulash of sport, but it is a country with a determination to win. Explains ex-Sprinter Jozsef Sir (pronounced sheer), commissar of the track and field section of the sports council of the Ministry of Culture: "We train. That is our secret...