"I don't have to tell you that was a pretty miserable showing," the CO announced as the last few stragglers joined the group.

The confrontation was sharpened by the miserable showing of Ahmed Mestiri's Movement of Democratic Socialists, the voice of Tunisia's Westernized, anti-Bourguiba elite, which won only 3.8 percent of the vote.

The miserable showing of these parties, which trace their origins to the turn of the century, suggest that the prewar parties have no real future in Romanian politics.

"Obviously if Steve Forbes, after years in Iowa and gobs of money, gets a miserable showing, it is not a good omen, shall we say, for Forbes being president."

By getting out before a miserable showing in the South Carolina primary and the exodus of an additional candidate or two, he guaranteed himself more news coverage and a greater air of importance than he might have received afterward.

Because we Terrans would make such a miserable showing compared with the most barbaric tribes in their own environment that the myth of Terran superiority would be exploded forever.

A phenomenal season for the Freedom came to an end with a miserable showing in the first-round against a team that had more heart and more poise.

What occurred in the ninth inning last night of what had been merely a miserable showing did get intriguing, in a terribly farcical way.

She was making a most miserable showing, and yet feelings were generating within her which were anything but crumbling cowardice.

The party had a miserable showing in the 1981 elections with its overall vote share declining from 2.8% in 1977 to 0.7% in 1981.