Word: flubbing
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...knows this well, and one of the qualities which make his words reverberate with heroism is his ability to tell bad news and make it seem somehow good-to make gloomy sentences add up to buoyant paragraphs. Last week he spoke of casualties, property destruction, difficulties-of production, the flub at Dakar. His doom-ridden peroration was a bright passage in the literature of hope...
...hence almost no suspense; it is largely a sentimental picture of mixed-up people in a strange land. What little emotion it arouses is one of pity for the refugees' plight rather than of indignation for what caused it. This is to write in a minor key, and flub a big theme. For there must always be those who, sick for home, stand in tears amid the alien corn. But only once in a very long while has the home they weep for been turned into a living Hell...
...TIME'S readers' flub, other readers flubs become proportionately greater. The low identification for Cornell, Lewis, Stavisky and Wolman seems surprising-I readily identify all except F. Scott Fitzgerald...
Fitzgerald Flub...
...many courses, Miss Gottlieb and Wales playing for a ball a hole. After halving two matches, she finally won with an 80 to his 83. He gave her a box of balls, autographed her card. She gave him an iron club. During the match Wales smiled when, after a flub, Beatrice Gottlieb cried, "Oh nerts...