Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then a widely read magazine like TIME undoes all our good with one inexcusable blunder . . . July 26 issue: "Bumpy does not feel too badly...
...Charge. The British view, from Winston Churchill on down, was that Gandhi's "failure" to die merely showed that the irascible Mahatma's bluff had been called at last. Cranky old George Bernard Shaw exploded ("stupidest blunder . . . the King should release Gandhi unconditionally as an act of grace"), but Britain as a whole backed the Indian Government. British Tories were solidly anti-Gandhi. Labor Party leaders considered India as a sort of slum-clearance project for future consideration. Most Britons applauded, a New Delhi White Paper: "Only one answer can be given to the question...
...fall. He was pushed: by the farm bloc, by Midwestern Congressmen who loathe gasoline rationing, by Democrats who thought that his restrictions had been the biggest factor in November's election returns. And perhaps the Administration felt it was time to sacrifice him when a new blunder over gas rationing almost left the East gasless...
...recognition" of a "Finnish People's Government" had made him, says Author Scott, "an object of ridicule for [Soviet] streetcar conductors." But most important of all, the invasion of Finland had revealed "considerable deadwood" in the mighty Red Army. In short, Round Two had been "a grotesque blunder" diplomatically; an invaluable proving ground militarily...
...last month the 19 "lepers" were told that doctors had at last figured out what was wrong: they were suffering from X-ray burns. Here & there a wife wept quietly. But most of the men felt better at once, though they were victims' of the most tragic blunder in U.S. industrial medicine...