Word: botch
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...Users who deal with the codes daily say they are hard to memorize. They take longer to type. And they are easy to botch. Correcting one typo in the 33-digit code can take hours of fact checking and backtracking...
...choicer epithets are often used for a dilatory night editor. The practice of releasing unpublished stories to the public press, which had already been suspended once James wrote his article, died a natural death from old age somewhere in the 1920s or 1930s, its grave unmarked. But candidates still botch stories and give "wonderful excuses," and the flavor of a real newspaper is still there...
Congressman Tom Delay, the pest-control expert from Laredo, Texas, knows all about the black art of extermination. So how did the majority whip so thoroughly botch the job he undertook two weeks ago, when he tried to eradicate a king-size Newt...
...concert goes ahead as planned, and if the optimistically-predicted 2,000 students attend, they will spend three hours together hardly able to hear one another speak. They will yell and scream and dance and sing--it'll be a great concert, if the council doesn't somehow botch it, but that's all it will be. Students won't leave the concert feeling any more part of a college community than when it started. For that to happen, we might suggest a group "Kumbaya" sing-along in Sanders. But that wouldn't cost $15,000 of our money...
Golf is another part of the Clinton cure. The President has said he wants to break 80 before his 50th birthday, and regular golfing partners say his liberal use of the mulligan -- the free shot given to duffers who botch a stroke -- probably makes that an attainable goal. The golf course is one of the few places where Clinton can quickly shut the presidency out of his mind. He does not tolerate shop talk on the links and has said he likes the game because he can play it slowly. When an aide approached him last year on a Vineyard...