Word: shufflers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...
Mateo Ruiz had never been more than a paper-shuffler at Pathfinder, knew almost nothing about the technical side of rubber-growing, curing and production. But an order was an order. He went to work on Dec. 8, 1943, well within hailing distance of roving bands of Japanese troops...
...Oldest shuffler was 82-year-old Edward Ranney, retired postal clerk from Kenmore, N. Y. Youngest was 17-year-old Dick Townsend of Grand Ledge, Mich. But the player who attracted the largest crowd was Open Champion Dwight K. Hubbard, 51, of Janesville, Wis. Champion Hubbard, onetime football coach, has been shuffling for ten years, has won the national championship six times. He already has more medals and ribbons than he can shake a shuffle-stick at. At week's end, it looked as if he might win another-if it would ever stop raining in Florida...