Word: blunder
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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...
Dick Cheney's reluctance to reveal how his Armstrong Ranch idyll exploded into a bird-shot blunder triggered readers to pepper the V.P. with charges of sly unaccountability. But others insisted that the only misfire in the overblown affair was the press shooting itself in the foot...
Dick Cheney's reluctance to reveal how his Armstrong Ranch idyll exploded into a bird-shot blunder triggered readers to pepper the V.P. with charges of sly unaccountability. But others insisted that the only misfire in the overblown affair was the press shooting itself in the foot...
...Whittemore Center Wednesday night to the blaring guitar strains of AC/DC. And although the Crimson (10-6-2, 7-2-2 ECAC) was not “Thunderstruck” by top-ranked New Hampshire (16-2-0, 7-1-0 Hockey East), it was certainly blunder-struck in a mistake-filled third period that eventually led to a 5-1 defeat. After threatening the host’s 10-game winning streak by remaining within one goal of the Wildcats through the initial two frames, the wheels came off for Harvard down the stretch as fatigue...