Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went the rounds last fall. Vast differences in the two nations' situations make direct analogy unfair, but the crack spotlights the contrast between the two cardinals: Hungary's hothearted, unbending Mindszenty, who fought a brave but disastrous battle with the Communists and wound up with the propaganda blunder of taking refuge in the American embassy; and Poland's coolheaded, intellectual Wyszynski, who emerged from three years' imprisonment with the will and the words to calm a people that was spoiling for the barricades...
...timing of the announcement was a political blunder by the Eisenhower Administration that was bound to hurt the cause of private power in the Northwest. Idaho Power had applied for the write-off four years ago, was still eligible under an ODM Korean war expansion goal, even though the program was closed out at the end of 1955. Knowing that the company's application was still on file, Virginia's Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson, chairman of the Joint Defense Production Committee, had asked ODM not to grant the write-off until the committee investigated. In granting...
...Billion-Dollar Blunder." After V-J day, Radford's basic good judgment gave way to blinkered zealotry. He led the Navy fight against 1) unification of the armed forces under a strong Department of Defense, and 2) the Air Force's strategic-bombing concept, symbolized by the intercontinental B-36, which Radford unhappily termed "a billion-dollar blunder." Such was Radford's quiet but sharp-toothed tenacity as he helped lead the famous "Revolt of the Admirals" (1948-49) that the Army's General Omar Bradley, then chairman of the J.C.S., got away with calling...
Unwitting Blunder. The answers were electrifying. Faure, who bears Mollet a deep grudge, had drafted the motion and stood by it. But Laniel confessed that he had never seen the text-"They just read me something over the telephone"-and publicly disavowed it. So did Pinay. Bird-like old Paul Reynaud, 78, determined to make amends for his unwitting blunder, bounced up to the speaker's rostrum to express his wholehearted approval of the Common Market. He was, rasped Reynaud, tired of "anthologies" of reasons for staying out of the Common Market. "These reasons," he said, "resolve into...
...Third Force political party, requiring followers to take an oath of loyalty "before God" to him. Rojas attacked old-party politicians with rising fury, and when six army trucks loaded with explosives inexplicably blew up last August in Cali. killing 427 and wounding 2,317, he made the intemperate blunder of charging the opposition with sabotage...