Word: flubbing
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...things which made our country great. Today's generation--and add to this the parents--is ready to conform, either through fear, conviction, or, more likely than not, passivity. Belief in democracy is strong, yes, but inarticulate. We are being bankrupted by the wild spenders promoting the frills and flub-dubbery of new wrinkles in education. Only we, the people, can stop this. Put the promoting type of educator to the rack and screw...
...current interclub chairman immediately announced his disappointment when the figures were tabulated, and he was joined in his lament by the Princetonian and officials of the University. The "Prince," in its next day's editorial, labeled the returns a "Club Flub," adding that it came as a real jolt to note that "13 percent of the first class to be admitted under the broadened regional admissions system should be refused or ignored membership in the clubs." At that time, one out of every five students belonged to no club, a figure obviously too high assuming the acceptance of the club...
...they can't relax. None of them clamors to be in his threesome. Says one frank Chicago pro: "It's no fun to play with Hogan. He's so good and so mechanically perfect that he seems inhuman. You get kind of uneasy and start to flub your shots." Others had other reasons, among them the big, distracting gallery that always follows...
Headwinds. As the week opened, Bob Taft hurried in to repair his earlier flub on farm prices, assured the voters that he meant revision, not reduction, of the parity ratio. While Taft took the low road (North Platte, Grand Island, Crete, Beatrice, Wahoo), wife Martha took the high road (Hyannis, Broken Bow, York, Seward, O'Neill). In three jampacked days, Bob addressed 8,000 in 13 speeches; Martha delivered a dozen more...
Richard is convinced that the worst thing that ever happened to him was to break the scoring record in his third season in the big time. The following year, worrying about keeping it up made him flub instead. This year, not worrying, he may set a new record. Says he coolly: "It is my own record I'd break. What difference does it make...