Word: bungler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many gardeners, I am rather a bungler. I know very little about pH soil tests. I think I know how to prune a rosebush, but the rosebush may think otherwise. I learned from my father the basic rules of mulching and thinning -- how to stake out the tomatoes, how to make the peas climb up the chicken wire, how to bind up the raspberries -- but the techniques that worked in the fertile hills of Vermont do not necessarily work in the sands of Long Island. Most important of all, I do not have the time (or the energy...
Drug use has never before tainted a Boston sports team. And with a tactless bungler like Pat Sullivan handling such a delicate situation, the organization may explode into a confused mess of good intentions, bad publicity, and bags of white powder...
Indeed, after the Achille Lauro hijacking, Abbas is widely regarded within the P.L.O. as a bungler who has gravely damaged the organization. Whether or not the U.S. and its allies ever manage to catch him and bring him to trial, his future is as questionable as his present whereabouts. At week's end, as the P.L.O. executive committee was about to convene in Baghdad, some of Arafat's adherents were talking of expelling Abbas from that body...