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I forgot that the full answer, HARD TO STARBOARD, punctuated a climactic moment in the Titanic epic right before the big ship comes a cropper.
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The problem for presidents who, in their frustration over the limits on their power, empower extragovernmental groups to carry out their extragovernmental policies, is that it usually comes a cropper.
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Bayer-Monsanto: Project Gandalf The venerable "Lord of the Rings" wizard comes a cropper in the first book of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic when he plummets into a dark pit while taking on a large and ugly monster.
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Weighing themselves on a penny machine, the gang receives a fortune card predicting that they will receive "unexpected riches." Acting upon this, the kids decide to dig for buried treasure, using a fraudulent map provided by one of their wise-guy acquaintances. Though the treasure hunt comes a-cropper, the fortune card's prediction comes true in an unexpected fashion.
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The estate had grass tennis courts, Croquet course, extensive horse stables and fox hunting hounds.Collier Dispersing Sporting Stable, New York Times, January 29, 1914, Page 7 Spanning many farms and properties, the area was widely used for an annual fox hunt of the "Monmouth County Hounds" which started in East Freehold and ended at the Collier Estate.Staff. "Robert J. Collier Comes a Cropper.", The New York Times, October 29, 1909. Accessed December 15, 2016.
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This time, it is the measles, requiring the boys to paint blotches on their faces. The plan comes a-cropper when, while visiting the doctor (Sidney Bracey), the boys are led to believe that Buckwheat has been transformed into a monkey. Spanky and Alfalfa think Buckwheat is still a monkey. That was when he found out that the superintendent changed her mind and decided to let Miss Lawrence to attend the wedding after all and the school would be closed for a week.
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The News Line is a daily newspaper published by a British Trotskyist group, the Workers' Revolutionary Party. It was launched in 1969 as Workers PressDuncan Hallas: Cult comes a cropper (1985) and renamed News Line in 1976.The News Line Entry in WorldCatWeekly Worker 509 Thursday 18 December 2003 For a time during the 1980s, the WRP split into two rival factions, and for a short time there were two versions of The News Line being produced every day, one by each faction. Chris Hughton wrote a football column for the newspaper in the 1970s.
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