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Word: fumblers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphy died in 1924, Mayor Jimmy Walker mourned: "The brains of Tammany Hall lie buried in Calvary Cemetery." Jimmy was right; fumbler followed fumbler at Tammany Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Bookkeeper | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...driver is a chronically exasperated ogre who delights in abandoning them on rainy street corners, or, if he consents to take them aboard, greets them with insults and treats them to bone-crushing lurches. To the driver, the enemy is a hydra-headed beast: a door blocker, a purse fumbler, and willfully uninformed. Jockeying his big green and cream-colored juggernaut down congested Madison Avenue one day last week, Driver James Coyne gloomily considered such frustrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Want to Be Alone | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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