Word: muff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...botch up our educational system just to circumvent a Government order," and Dean David Truman calls overgrading a "violation of intellectual trust." Some students concede that they will choose easy courses to keep their grades high. An advertisement in the University of Michigan Daily urged coeds to muff their exams so the men could rank higher...
Last week's collection combined the standard and the special: a coat, a dress, and long jersey stockings to match; quilted linings for storm coats; a smock over tights; a sable muff any sable would envy. Biggest news were the new culottes, tighter and more hippy, and a spate of long pants, from grey flannel trousers for day to bugle-beaded pajamas for play. Prices: $900 for a suit, $850 for a coat...
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER DID NOT MUFF A THING. HIS GREATEST TRIUMPH AT THE SUMMIT WAS THAT HE TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SPY PLANE. BECAUSE HE DID, EVERY WORD HE SAYS CAN BE BELIEVED BY US, BY OUR ALLIES AND BY THE WHOLE FREE WORLD...
...mileage this season, and he will do well almost any year with the really unknown names (Karl Ditters von Dit-tersdorf) that make his opponents uneasy. But what separates the great player from the merely good one is his ability to pronounce names correctly that most people muff ("Loo-EE-jee Da-la-pee-CO-la"). To take the guesswork out of pronunciation, Grayhill Productions has now issued an LP recording that no serious player can afford to be without...