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Word: goofing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME rather did goof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...gaffe heard round the world. Editorialists were reminded of Pearl Harbor, exploded in wrathful indignation. The press and the politicos cried for courts-martial of the brass responsible for the parts goof. President Eisenhower demanded an immediate report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Incident in Death Alley | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Great White Goof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Alas for the Great White Goof [the Senate Office Building fiasco, May 25]. We Britons are acutely aware of our awful blunders of inefficiency, such as the Preston Motorway and British Railways, and I have for quite a time used examples of American efficiency to great effect in grammar-school debates. This powerful and humiliating weapon is now useless. You Americans are fatheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...story), a junior advertising executive was eagerly reading a book in a plain wrapper. The train hit a New Haven bump, the book fell to the floor, and the title was revealed for all to see: The Status Seekers. By the rules of status seeking, it was a serious goof: no smart social climber wants to be caught showing too much interest in the book, since anyone in secure social status should be above any concern with the restless and near-universal scramble for position that Author Vance (The Hidden Persuaders) Packard undertakes to describe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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