Word: washout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into his first primary contest in a decade. Opponent: William L. Johnson, owner of Ironwood's radio station WJMS, backed by insurgent Democrats, who dislike "Soapy" Williams' alliance with the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther. But against potent Soapy, Johnson proved to be a washout. Last week, by a nearly six-to-one margin, Michigan Democrats picked Williams to run in November against G.O.P. Nominee Paul D. Bagwell, Michigan State University communications professor and a political novice. Odds-on to win: Williams. Nominated by the Democrats to run for the U.S. Senate against Republican Incumbent Charles...
...Antonio to watch the U.S.'s flying cadets putting their de Havillands through their paces. So he applied for and was accepted in the Air Corps flying school, survived the school's average of one crash landing for every 30 hours of flight training, and its 60% washout rate to win his wings. "I was certainly not in the H.P. [Hot Pilot] category," he said. "The bombardment group specialized in slow thinkers, and that's where they...
...resembling Gettysburg without the monuments. One hundred and fifty bearded and costumed actors and volunteer extras, all Civil War buffs, armed with polished muzzle loaders and supported by cavalry and authentic 19th century cannon, stood by for four days as the October 1955 rains pelted them. Cost of the washout: $3,000. Back in their Manhattan workshop, the planners decided they could get big scope by closing down to the suggestion of epic Greek tragedy in the plight of Lee at Seminary Ridge, a majestic central figure brought down by circumstances beyond his control...
...Kansas hick town was caught in a drought. A bankrupt circus only made matters worse by praying for a dry track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics...
Beer & Baccy. However this bit of fancy does not occur before Old Cock has duly delivered himself of a few well-rounded reflections on the "Socialist mob, the thieving upstarts," and stated his Weltanschauung: "Cutting the cackle, it's a bloody washout in which the baby is thrown out with the bathwater and devil take all. Talk about Rights. What Rights? Then I will tell you . . . the right of an Englishman true-born and free to get his beer and baccy, his Java, bread and scrape, plum-and-apple, cut off the joint and choice of two veg . . . good...