Word: fumblers
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...later on TV's Meet the Press, that what he really had meant was that Khrushchev is afraid of Jack Kennedy. In fact, said Joe, "he hates Kennedy." As for Dick Nixon, Curran reported that Khrushchev has only contempt for the Vice President: "He is a fumbler. He is not a politician but a grocery clerk." Such a bad billing from K. suited the Nixon forces just fine, but last week a rebuttal to the Red boss's insult was put in by an unlikely enrolled Republican. In an outraged letter to Nikita, James A. Suffridge, president...
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...
...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...
...magic act with two magicians, and an act which offers the combined efforts of a fumbler, jugglers, and an unicyclist may well be the high points of the show...
...houses, cold rooms in Manhattan or San Francisco, pawning his typewriter, finding a little brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times he seems as inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter...