Word: disappoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face, had a trivial triangle plot, raised above itself by unerringly accurate writing-and by the reader's chilling realization that its worldly insights were achieved by a 17-year-old author. It was the most successful book from outside the English-speaking world. The Germans continued to disappoint (Gerhard Kramer's We Shall March Again, and Heinrich Büll's Adam, Where Art Thou?), but other countries contributed moving items...
...Tigers' one defeat was to a once-defeated Colgate team, 15-6, but they came back the next week to disappoint a Cornell homecoming crowd, 26-20. Last week, Brown lost to Princeton...
...once, Lola has failed to get what Lola wants, the same cannot be said of the audiences who pack the theater eight times weekly to cheer her efforts. As a seductress with a sense of humor, Lola may seriously disappoint her Satanic master in the play, but as the most incendiary star on Broadway, Gwen Verdon does fine by her real-life boss, Director George Abbott, a genius of the darkling hours often credited with a magic as mysterious as Satan...
Russia's new neutral look was admirably styled to appeal to Europe's current passion for distensione, or relaxation of tension. So widespread is this sentiment that few European politicians are willing to disappoint it. Britain's election campaign involves a contest over which of the big parties wants negotiations more eagerly; no French Cabinet dare take office without affirming the same goal...
Damn Yankees is less perfectly sustained than The Pajama Game; it slows down in places, or to keep fast, turns choppy. And it may disappoint people who find baseball a bore. For all others, however, the long jinx on baseball as a stage theme has been broken at last by the high jinks of a good, gay show...