Word: dufferism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon, a duffer who quailed visibly when asked by cameramen to display his swing. By the time Ike flubbed a five-foot putt on the ninth hole, it looked as if things were back to normal in vacationland...
...C.I.O.'s powerful Steelworkers union. He kept track of administrative detail, helped negotiate contracts, actually ran union affairs in 1941 while Murray was laid low by a heart attack. In 1942 McDonald was elected secretary-treasurer, and then was regularly reelected. In his spare time he played duffer's golf, learned to fly and piloted his own plane, but also worked hard at the union's affairs. He drew up the blueprint for an organizing drive in the South, sat on committees dealing with social security, traveled abroad as a union representative, plugged the Good Neighbor line...
Both had played fine golf to reach the final over the famed Prestwick course. But in the first part of the final, both lapsed into a duffer game. Stranahan repeatedly pounded into the rough, got into half a dozen bunkers and four traps. Jittery Harvie Ward unhappily flubbed his chances by missing six putts of less than five feet (one an 18-incher) in the first nine holes...
...accident was ten months old the day he announced casually that he was going over to the club to hit a few golf balls-and would Valerie like to go along? She watched while Ben swung and shanked one off to the right like a Sunday duffer. "Look, I've shanked," cried Hogan, and his wife exclaimed, "Well, you've learned something new." That night they celebrated with a steak dinner...
Robinson was happy at Harvard, if a bit of a social duffer. Women terrified him (he was to remain a bachelor all his life), and he felt that dancing lowered a man's "natural dignity." Painfully shy, he preferred to "smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold...