Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprising that one who presumes to be so smart as you do should make such an egregious blunder as that on page 1 of your issue of Dec. 22 in reference to the massacre of the French under John Ribaut by the Spanish under Pedro Menendez on the shores of Florida in 1565. You say that Menendez lined the French up before a firing squad. He did nothing of the kind. He quietly slid a janeta beneath the fifth rib of each. Of course if you don't know history it is just as well to make a stab...
...last week, to the place formerly filled by Chase. Gamache's rise has been even more spectacular and sudden than Stafford's. Playing as a substitute center all the early part of the year, he was never conceded a chance of becoming a first string man. Perhaps his blunder in making a faulty pass at a crucial moment in the Dartmouth game served him well in the end. Shortly after he was given a chance at an outpost. That he has done well at his new job is witnessed by the fact that he is the most likely candidate...
Liberal. The Liberals start out by defining their position in the last Parliament, referring to the "Russian Blunder"(i.e., promising to guarantee a loan) ; it then deals with unemployment, housing, land, agriculture, coal and power, education, free trade, industrial peace, social insurance, prohibition, electoral reform, and ends: "The people have now a choice to make between three parties. It has an opportunity of putting in power a Liberal Government, which will pursue the path of peace, social reform, and national development, avoiding, on the one hand, unthinking resistance to progress, and, on the other hand, unbalanced experiments and impracticable schemes...
...Committeeman. "It has .this to do with it: they selected a man that no white man or black man in Georgia will stand for." The turning point came when Mr. Johnson presented a letter written by the late President Harding to C. Bascom Slemp saying it had been a blunder to recognize the Phillips faction instead of the Johnson faction. Mr. Johnson added that President Harding had told him last Summer: "That has been the blunder of my life. I'm going to set it right as soon as I get back from Alaska...
...National Union of Railway Men, to which the strikers belong, declared the strike to be illegal, in a manifesto reported as follows: "The people responsible for calling the strike have made a colossal blunder in thinking than an irresponsible small section of the Union can dictate the policy of the Union. Our membership has been so schooled into discipline that for any small section of unauthorized people to attempt to undermine constitutional government by such methods can only have one result, and sooner or later the members who are being badly misled will have to realize it. For any small...