Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Early was not on the campaign train when President Roosevelt started out again. Dejected, inconsolable, Steve Early gloomed in Washington, fearful that he might have cost his boss the election. Besides committing a first-rate political blunder, he had misbehaved in a way no decent citizen should. But for once newsmen were sorry for him, blaming it all on his hot temper...
...first task of the conscientious objector is to fix in his own mind what his conscience will permit him to do. Then he must inform himself exactly as to the type of work involved in the various jobs that will be thrust at him, so that he will not blunder into something that violates his convictions. Having done this, he is prepared to throw his full weight against the war system...
There were certain to be questions on whether Gamelin sacrificed his ill-equipped troops to cover his own blunder, why Reynaud and Daladier ever conceived that France could defeat Germany, why planes were abandoned intact for the enemy to take over, and who were the men responsible for such errors as ordering an armaments factory immediately abandoned when the assembly line was filled with virtually completed tanks. Everything could come under review with a court charged to determine and judge the men responsible for "the passage from the state of peace to a state of war" and whose acts subsequently...
...workers: "He [Harry Hopkins] said the people were 'too damn dumb' to understand the reason why the New Deal can get away with the things it has. . . . You don't look 'dumb' to me." In a confused moment he made his first blunder, let slip: "To hell with Chicago." The cavalcade rushed off to the financial district, LaSalle Street. There Chicago's cool reception turned tumultuous. A ticker-tape blizzard showered down...
...cause the mails are impossibly slow, Sir Stafford corresponds by cable with his wife in London. Recently he told her he had bought an Airedale named Joe. Last week, Lady Cripps told friends, she wrote a cable to her husband, ended it with "Greetings to Joe," saw her blunder, struck out the last word, substituted "Airedale...