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Word: undershoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Possibly he hadn't tried hard enough. The others entertained ambitions--intellectual ambitions, athletic ambitions, social and political ambitions--and those who entertain ambitions undershoot the mark a good sixty-two percent of the time. This is the real key to dejection, but a key Falstaff never held. He simply didn't desire. He didn't care to. He really didn't care...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Togetherness | 11/18/1958 | See Source »

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