Word: muffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even Dale Carnegie has a tendency to muff matters, when he should be winning friends; he forgets names. Fortunately for him, he has a wife who knows how to help. At parties, she jerks him up by saying: "Dale, you remember Mrs. Robinson. She was just telling me about Lake Louise." In How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead. Dorothy Carnegie fills 251 pages with similar tips. She has almost surely written a bestseller...
...current popular confidence is a fingers-crossed faith, which could be changed into a thumbs-down rejection, if this time a pro-business Government and private business enterprise muff the ball . . . Sheer business enterprise, motivated solely by self-interest, is not enough . . . It is up to businessmen themselves to add . . . business statesmanship . . . Business [must] think and act as though it had the chief responsibility of solving all the gigantic problems that confront our nation . . . Business [must] have the courage and the common sense to rise above class interest to heights of economic statesmanship, which asks before every private or public...
Next day, Frank Carlson heard his good friend Bob Taft's side of the story: the G.O.P. must not muff its big chance by allowing friction to develop between the White House and the Capitol; as majority leader, Taft would be thoroughly loyal to Ike Eisenhower; friction could be avoided best with Taft in the majority leadership. After the conference, Carlson telephoned around to other Ike-before-Chicago Senators, got their general endorsement of Taft as majority leader...
...newsman asked Delegation Chairman Floyd Landreth if the Virginia delegates were getting to like Ike better. "That might well be true," he replied. "If Eisenhower were nominated and the Democrats muffed it, Ike might win. If Taft were nominated, I don't know, but they would have to muff it pretty keen...
...error gave the Crimson a run and a temporary edge in the sixth inning. Bernie Akillian singled and scored on right fielder Bob McCue's muff of Dick Clastiy's wind-blown fly. The Bruins, however, clinched the decision in the top of the eighth, combining two singles and a double steal (which had misfired twice before) for two more runs and the game...