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Word: muddler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only fishing I've ever done is the kind Chouinard dismisses as too easy for words--"with live worms!" At the local store, where we got our one-day licenses, I noted the names of the flies on sale: Ausable Wulff, Hare's Ear, Goofus Bug, Wild Muddler. Wild Muddler appealed to me. Chouinard--who is small and tightly built, with the forearms of the blacksmith he once was--wears green canvas sneakers with holes, a pair of yellowed sweat socks, denim shorts, a beaten cap, a Patagonia vest, of course, and a T shirt bearing the words CUTTHROAT BUSINESSMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YVON CHOUINARD: Reaching the Top by Doing the Right Thing | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...that anyone of comparable vision will succeed him. Felipe Gonzalez, the boy wonder of Spain a decade ago, barely squeaked by in national elections last month and is still struggling to form a minority government. In New Delhi a press commentary calls P.V. Narasimha Rao "the Prime Muddler of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo's No Star Line-Up | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

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