Word: dufferish
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...literary criticism to classical scholarship, is considered by his colleagues to be something of a scholarly "roadbreaker." But beyond his teaching and research, Goheen retained his one-of-the-boys quality-the amiable father of six children, the Sunday afternoon coach of a small boys' football team, the dufferish but genial companion on the golf links...
...mill politician, wavy-haired, well-tailored Roger Slaughter has always shown a streak of independence, makes no bones about his conservatism. Princeton-bred and well-to-do, he has a successful law practice, plays dufferish golf at the Kansas City Country Club, generally remains aloof from the hurly-burly of Missouri politics. He particularly roused the President's ire by going out to Harry Truman's home territory*and making a rousing speech on behalf of the Case Bill just before the President vetoed it. Worse yet, a great many Kansas citizens seemed to like the speech...
...Harold Dewey Smith's 45th birthday did not make even the society column of his home-town paper, the Arlington, Va. Daily. Because it was Sunday, Mr. Smith celebrated his arrival at this milestone of middle age by sleeping late (9:30 a.m.) and playing eleven holes of dufferish golf at the nearby Washing ton Golf and Country Club, a course which would test a mountain goat. (If his tall, athletic wife Lillian had gone along, she would have trounced him. She shoots in the low 80s.) At dinner there was a cake, which they ate on the porch...
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