Word: flubbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrackers. He pointed to long-haired protesters as "anarchists," as exemplars of the breakdown of order and respect. When the hecklers booed, Wallace bowed and blew them kisses. "They got me a million votes," he said, adding that he needed the hecklers; silence caused him to flub his lines more than once. But late in the campaign he ran into a reverse form of hectoring. Lank-haired students wearing Wallace buttons cheered him wildly and chanted, "Kill for peace!" Such demonstrations left him dumfounded...