Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bluntly outspoken, Airman Radford was Airman Sherman's own choice to succeed him two years hence. But popular "Raddy" Radford had led the Navy's revolt against unification in 1949, was anathema to the Air Force, whose giant B-36 bomber he scornfully labeled a "billion-dollar blunder," and had been called a "fancy Dan" by Omar Bradley. The morning before Sherman's funeral, Radford went to Navy Secretary Dan Kimball, asked that his name be withdrawn for the good of the Navy. And then there were four...
...between Mao and Stalin cannot be entirely ruled out. But it would be a terribly dangerous gamble for the U.S. to let itself be guided by hope for such a split. For Mao to rebel against Stalin, or for Stalin to force Mao into a rebellion, would be a blunder bordering on insanity. Both Mao and Stalin have made big mistakes before, but there is little in their long, successful careers to indicate that they are likely to commit such a whopper...
...colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a pother. The Department of Defense denounced it as a "terrible blunder," an example of "lowlevel thinking," disowned the report. But despite the storm that broke on the colonel, no one contradicted his facts-and no one took action against Major General Floyd L. Parks, Chief of Army Public Information, who had cleared his statement...
Except for a passing mention in the Globe, the papers declined to discuss MacArthur's big blunder. Someone must have mumbled to the general that the truce agenda had been agreed upon in Korea, for when he visited a hospital a few minutes later he told more than one soldier, "You'll be interested to know that a truce was signed this morning...
...second most stupid blunder since the appointment of Dean Acheson...