Word: blunder
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...loved nothing more than to see the pro-demoracy protestors smash through the police cordons and storm the royal palace. Rejecting the King's announcement, the leader of the Maoists, who uses the nom-de-guerre Prachanda (the fierce one), said that the political parties had committed an "historic blunder" by ending the protests. He also announced that the Maoists would immediately blockade Kathmandu and other major towns until a special assembly, with the power to draft a new constitution for Nepal, was formed...
...replace suspended NHL defenseman Eric Cairns for three games in late March. And wouldn’t you know, Welch’s own-goal made SportsCenter’s “Not Top 10”—in fact, it was the No. 1 blunder...
...decision applicants who were already rejected were accidentally sent a welcome e-mail two months later. At the end of that same year, Duke University made the opposite mistake. It told dozens of successful early applicants that they had been deferred. And the University of Georgia made a grave blunder in sending 112 hard-copy acceptance letters—as well as banners carrying the school colors—to rejected students. Yet despite a number of mix-ups at various institutions, students do not seem to be too skeptical of the admissions e-mails they receive. John W. Hastrup...
Dick Cheney's reluctance to reveal how his shooting idyll exploded into a bird-shot blunder triggered readers to pepper the V.P. with charges of unaccountability. But others insisted the press misfired...
...Casablanca once owned by a real caliph - was crawling with them. His ever-expanding workforce was terrified by the spectral invaders, blaming them for every accident, including those dead animals. "They were a back door by which all blame could be neatly sidestepped," writes Shah of the jinns. "Any blunder - from chopping down the wrong tree to setting fire to the lawn mower - could be instantly brushed aside." So Shah learned to deal with jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood in the toilet, burying chunks of meat in the garden and, when the usual remedies failed, hiring...