Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually worthless trying to interpret an audience's reactions and using that interpretation as a criterion by which to judge the play. But last night, when roars of laughter greeted each stupid blunder made by the generals and the visiting congressmen, it leaves some doubt as to whether Mr. Haines has succeeded in making his point. Stupidity is laughable in chimney-sweeps and char-women, but it becomes something else when found among men with the whip in their hands...
Probably the angriest man in Washington was Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who would now have to undertake the job of repairing the House blunder. He immediately asked to make his views known before the Senate Appropriations Committee this week. There was little doubt that he would be able to restore most of the cuts, and with them the damage to Republican prestige...
...great deal of pushing, pulling and hauling on wrong ends. At the last minute the House, at the prodding of Wisconsin's Republican Representative Alvin Edward O'Konski, had added Franco's fascist Spain to the list of beneficiaries. Administration and Senate leaders, appalled by this blunder which gave Communists something to shout about, had got Spain yanked out. Bravely, at week's end, ERP floated...
...responsible for the blunder, Vandenberg refused to say. He insisted that "there was nothing at all sinister about it." But there could be no question that it was Vandenberg's laxity which let it slip into print...
...national hero overnight, the prototype for all subsequent gang-busting radio programs. In his two years as special prosecutor, he made a record of 72 convictions out of 73 indictments; in his last year as D.A., 96.5% were convicted or pleaded guilty. His zeal for convictions led to one blunder. In 1938, his office got one Bertram Campbell convicted of forgery. Campbell spent three years in jail, was later found to be innocent. As governor, Dewey signed a bill giving Campbell the right to sue the state for damages. Campbell collected $115,000, died three months later...