In brief, one putters around, knowing that one will have to start all over again if things do not work out.
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They were represented as mere spouters and chatterboxes, the putters of awkward questions and the raisers of small points of procedure.
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I always thought that if you could keep theputterall right you had no fear of a stoppage in a pit.
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To borrow a corny analogy, he is using a rate of interestputterbut in the context of having previously used a fiscal policy driver.
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Men and women may be, and are, wage earners, price raisers, price payers, capital in-putters, consumers and the rest.
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I told them a driver, a brassie, a niblick, a mashie and aputter.
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This manager said that the most difficult persons he had to deal with were the putters.
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After all, it is the consistently goodputterwho sinks the putts, and it is the skilful bridge player who seems to hold all the cards all the time.
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Twenty putters were found lying clasped hand in hand, huddled together in that long last sleep of death.
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Guests can request items such as yoga mats, guitars, cupcakes, sound pillows, hair diffusers and golf putters.
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His original designs, usually mallet putters, are often named using ad hoc wordplay.
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Initially his game was hindered by problems with his putting, but he overcame this after switching to an aluminiumputterin 1900.
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Putters may have two striking faces, as long as they are identical and symmetrical.
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Theputterwas odd-looking, with an oversized aluminum head.
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The design of the putter's club head has undergone radical change in the last 2030 years, as have many club types.
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