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While supervising east ern parks, he has puttered expertly in his two-acre Lyonhurst garden, chewing an unlit cigar.

From Time Magazine Archive

For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story.

From Time Magazine Archive

So each workday since�through Communist takeover and every twist of revolutionary rancor�Zhao Wenjin has puttered about the compound, now an oceanographic institute, and every month he has collected, via the British, his $61 paycheck.

From Time Magazine Archive

I've chopped wood, and I've built corrals and dug ditches, and Jase has puttered around and whined that he wasn't able-bodied enough to do no heavy lifting.

From The Ranch at the Wolverine by Bower, B. M.