Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grasp of human weaknesses. Its people went barefoot along its clay roads and never washed their children's faces. On the sides of a few houses were slogans from Mussolini, who committed the great obscenity of urging women to have even more children, and the great blunder of thinking, he could make eight million bayonets out of weeds. Poverty was in Romanoglio before the war came. Now Famine, Pestilence and Death are there...
...last Nov. 7) did he realize "the full significance and amplitude of what had been prepared." He appreciated the gesture, but "in its total implications it is an insult to me and to the Party. It is a gross contradiction of the spirit of the times and a serious blunder by members of a revolutionary party...
Just who was about to commit the blunder of "island-hopping," the General did not say. Island-hopping has been denounced by all. So far the U.S. has been unable to assemble enough strength in the Pacific to do anything else. But developments had apparently convinced MacArthur that when forces for "massive strokes" were assembled they would be entrusted to someone else. He was to be overshadowed, overlapped, inadequately supplied and relegated to a pipsqueak holding campaign...
Into Mackinac Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
...State Department also permitted the Japs to seize the political initiative in Asia, by gifts and promises of gifts of territory to its satellites in Burma, Thailand, Nanking and French Indo-China. Said the New York Times of this U.S. blunder: "We cannot win [Asiatic good will] unless we have something to offer, and what we offer will inevitably be measured against what the Japanese have, if only ostensibly, begun to carry out. ... It is time to give some translation. We may not need to promise full independence . . . but we do have to give some assurance of betterment in their...