Word: bungler
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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...
...Newton, Cantley described him as "that awful man" and a "conceited bungler" who "might have been inspired to take a little more care" if he had, in fact, been intent on murder...
...that, as the titles proclaim, actually took place in New York three years ago. It was one of those suffocatingly sticky days in late August when, supposedly, dogs go mad and people lose control, no longer able to keep their secret passions on ice. Sonny (Al Pacino), a nervous bungler, tries to pull off a heist in half an hour, scrambling the job so badly that it becomes an all-day extravaganza...
Within the union, Fitzsimmons has opponents who consider him a bungler. But so strong is the Teamsters' tradition of sticking with the man in power that the critics' major hope for unseating him at the union's 1976 elections is that Hoffa will somehow turn up alive, well and able to run in opposition. Failing that, Fitzsimmons could still face substantial opposition from dissatisfied Teamsters who do not like his leadership style. No strong opponent has surfaced so far. Last week, at a Boston convention of Teamsters representing warehousemen, Fitzsimmons moved through crowds of overfed...