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Word: bungler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wisest step ever taken by President Truman was to dismiss that General Bungler . . . From this remote corner of Africa I extend three hearty cheers to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...well-meaning bungler in the tradition of Graham Greene heroes, Gotten decides to clear up his friend's death and reputation, goes about it with an ingenuous bravado that soon turns him from hunter into hunted. Along the way he becomes involved with a sardonic major of the British military police (Trevor Howard) who had hunted his friend, a melancholy actress (Valli) who had loved him, and, finally, the villain (Orson Welles), a gladhanding, cynical American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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