Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Party are so anxious to get control of the Government . . . that they won't stop at anything . . . [Eisenhower] is doing and saying exactly what they tell him ... He has become a front man for the lobbies." ¶"By attacking our efforts in Korea and calling them a blunder, [Eisenhower] has raised questions that strike a blow at the morale of the free nations fighting there. I never thought I would see a general, least of all this one, doing anything that could weaken the morale and faith of our country ... at the very time when our troops...
...spycatcher and the first-rate spy have these talents in common. So the spycatcher must also know what type of blunder any given spy is likely to make. This knowledge is partly based on the theory that a nation's particular strengths and weaknesses are usually neatly reflected in the behavior of its agents...
...donkeys emerged from an American Airlines flagship. Casually he told reporters: "I am coming at the request of the President to have lunch with him and the Cabinet." Then, climbing into a waiting limousine, Democratic Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson whirled off to the White House, where the first bad blunder of the 1952 campaign was in the making...
...Senate the embarrassment of a showdown on the issue; it unanimously (60 to 0) ordered the Gillette subcommittee to continue investigating McCarthy and referred the Benton case to the full committee. But McCarthy's enemies were delighted, nevertheless; they thought they had caught their man in a serious blunder. They figured it would be easier for the subcommittee to go ahead with a businesslike investigation of Republican McCarthy if it were also looking into the case of Democrat Benton. And by demanding an investigation of Benton's income-tax returns, McCarthy had opened the way for the subcommittee...
...political blunder put Lewis in the dog house for a good many years. He broke loose by roving over Canada and the U.S. for eight years, returning to Britain only in 1948. Since then, with his novels reissued and his paintings re-exhibited, his stock has slowly but steadily risen. One reason is that Britons have become more used to Lewis' honest vehemence, more conscious of the truths wrapped up in it. Another is that since 1949 he has suffered the worst fate that can befall a painter: the gradual loss of his sight...