Word: fiasco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their jobs on bicycles, in private cars, in big blue sightseeing buses mobilized by the government. One energetic bank clerk arrived on roller skates. Across France, food shops, department stores, restaurants were open, mail was delivered. One of the Socialists' own cabinet ministers called the strike a "fiasco." But the Communists had different ideas on what was good advertising: they triumphantly labeled the strike a succès éclatant...
...glance at future schedules and future squads makes it look as though this season's fiasco will be the pattern for several years to come. Someone is to blame, and it isn't the law of averages. It is the alumni...
...introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer seem to be winning. It looks pretty good." After the Boston ice cream pie had been cleared away, the President rose again to announce "the latest returns on the Lehman-Dulles fiasco - and it will be just that when Lehman gets through with him . . . We have a report that the New York Times and the New York Daily News - both Dulles supporters - concede to Lehman and O'Dwyer." Said beaming Harry Truman: "It certainly is a most happy evening...
...Japanese imperialists; at the same time, the capitalist system is approaching another disastrous depression (by lumping in "those not working a full week," Malenkov arrived at a U.S. unemployed total of 14 million). Russia, on the other hand, is surrounded by friendly neighbors* and, since the West's fiasco in China, the number of people in the Soviet orbit now amounts to 800 million. "We do not want war," cried Malenkov. "Let no one imagine, however, that we are intimidated . . . The Soviet government possesses the atomic weapon...
NUTS; THE GREAT FIASCO, cried a rude Daily Mail banner headline. It referred to the Labor government's grandiose, three-year-old project of planting a vast acreage of groundnuts (peanuts) in the bush wastes of Tanganyika, East Africa. The nuts were supposed to yield margarine and add extra calories to Britain's meager diet. Last week, Labor bigwigs were reading the first summary of the project's progress by the Overseas Food Corp., which the government created to run the groundnut scheme. It was a most embarrassing report...