Word: muffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, and Yale, and then going to the Easterns on consecutive weeks, the Crimson swimmers definitely were tired, and justifiably so, on Saturday night. I caused defending champion Pete Dillingham to muff his second-last dive in high board competition and finish third behind Navy's Owen Davies and Yale's Ken Welch. It slowed up the Harvard players and added a second to the times of individual medleyist Mary Sandler and sprinter John McNamara, who were eliminated in the trial heats...
...asked; sometimes a planted question is given to a friendly reporter, to draw out something the President wants to say. Sometimes correspondents help by telephoning their questions ahead. (Their excuse: this is the only way to get a thought-out answer from slow-thinking Harry Truman, who might otherwise muff a complicated question thrown at him suddenly.) And the President is not above giving reporters a misleading answer to sticky questions if he thinks he can get away with...
...Ayer of the University of Texas tested high-school students in 82 cities, then reached back to 1915 for comparison. Sample findings: in 1915, high-school students had no trouble with trouble, but nowadays, 9% manage to spell it wrong; almost everybody used to get loose right, but 23% muff it now. Misspellers of business have jumped from 6% in 1915 to 24% today; of independent from 12% to 25%; of stomach, from...
...muff in the third game, Philly Shortstop Hamner, 23, inconsolably told himself he was the series goat. "I've made a lot of errors in my life," he said, "but that one . . ." Actually the series had no goat. It also produced no new towering heroes. The standouts, apart from the pitchers: aging (35) Joe DiMaggio, on his fielding and clutch hitting; quiet, self-effacing Yankee Second Baseman Jerry Coleman, 26, 1949's rookie-of-the-year, who figured in five of his team's six runs in the first three games...
...went ahead again in the third inning without a hit. Al Piper walked, stole second and scored on a two base muff by Greeley...