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five o’clock follies
noun
during the Vietnam war, the daily military press briefings US, 1966- The daily sessions were soon known as “The Five O’Clock Follies.” — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 82, 1967
- He resolved to meander by MACV headquarters later in the day, perhaps in time for the famous Five O’clock Follies, the chest-thumping press briefing that so amused the collected media cynics every afternoon. — Lucian K. Truscott, Army Blue, p. 89, 1989
- In the view of correspondents who reported from Vietnam, it is considerably less useful than the much-satirized “Five o’Clock Follies,” the daily briefing in Saigon, because far fewer facts are made available. — New York Times, p. A9, 4 February 1991
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