Word: bummed
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...midst of the fiercest selling war since 1940. Price, who came up on the crest of the great postwar buying spree, knows that he still has to pass the tests of dog-eat-dog competition. As Price puts it: "I can turn out to be a success or a bum...
That's the experience story. But it's not the entire picture, for the top five round out with Corey's surprise of the season, Ham Graven. Ham hasn't played squash before, he was sidelined with a bum foot most of the early season, but with a "surprising come back" is undefeated in five starts. Bob Cook alternates between fifth and sixth only because "he misses that power or accuracy of top player," says Corey...
...Chief of Police Frank Borelli assured him of protection as "long as we didn't do anything." Borelli, he swore, tipped him that the FBI was moving in, and he ducked away to Marlboro, N.Y. (Cried the chief last week: "I don't even know the bum.") But Smith had hard luck-he went back to New York, got shot again, recuperated again, got shot again, recuperated again, and was yanked back to "the walls" as a parole violator...
...Charles Russell knew what he could do and had a master's pride in his talent. Standing before a display of modern art, he once said: "I can't savvy the stuff. It may be art, but it's over my head. I may paint a bum hoss, but people who know what a hoss looks like will know I tried to paint a hoss...
...same problem in selling bum goods of any kind," Hickey said, "and we ask sellers to look at it that...