Word: dud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number one, Peter Smith beat Dud Lyons in four games, 16-15, 15-14, 7-15, and 15-10. Hampy Howell defeated Porter Wheeler in the second-ranked match, also in four games. Howell's scores were...
...even urged line pilots to buy insurance." But he brushed too close to disaster too often; he realized how the unexpected can upset an actuary's figures. He remembers a ham-handed clod named Dudley who flew copilot for a while on trans-Pacific runs. Dudley was a dud on instruments, but only after a couple of near crashes did anyone check his logbooks and find them an utter fiction. When he was fired, Dudley promptly got a job with another line and piled up in flames...
...commercial publishing venture, National Review magazine is a dud. In its brief history, it has spent some $860,000 more than it has taken in. Its founder, Editor in Chief William F. Buckley Jr., 34, works for nothing, says that he had to resign from the Yale Club for "economic reasons." But by Bill Buckley's lights, National Review is nonetheless a spanking success: it has become the most notable U.S. periodical speaking for the far political right...
...with a severe cold, hung on grimly for ninth place, and Bob Knapp and Jack Benjamin displaced Dartmouth competitors by taking 10th and 11th. Was Hildreth exhibited the determination that drove the entire team yesterday by putting on a desperate closing sprint to snatch 12th place away from Indian Dud Hallagan after the meet had already been decided...
...neither team gains an advantage in the high finishers, the Green's hopes will rest on juniors Dan Tompkins and Dud Hallagan, who will be competing mainly against Crimson runners Ed Hamlin and Fred Howard. Bob knapp and Greg Baldwin should be the other two Crimson scorers...