Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of its stupendous blunder, Find-A-Bird chose to lie low. A source close to Find-A-Bird officials, however, reported that several of the corporation's commissions had been withdrawn and that its stock had fallen off considerably...
...Trumbull reported: "Experienced diplomats of various nations here are appalled at what they consider Washington's ineptitude in handling the current crisis. They say the Administration committed the fundamental tactical error of driving its adversary into a corner from which there was no dignified line of retreat. This blunder was even less explicable, they say, because Washington apparently had no workable plan of action ready for use when Ngo Dinh Diem defied the Administration...
...South Koreans, 50,000 U.S. troops, and small detachments from Thailand and Turkey. There is still some bloodshed in the 2,000-yd.-wide demilitarized zone on either side of the line. In their ceaseless search for shell casings and scrap metal, South Korean civilians blunder into old but still murderous minefields. Red agents, trying to sneak south, are shot or captured by U.N. patrols. Last November North Korean soldiers raided an unalert U.S. post, lobbed in grenades and killed one G.I., wounded another. "There's glamour in South Viet Nam because you fight there," says a U.S. captain...
...what set off the army explosion was an infamous military blunder. After the long-drawn-out bloodbath of Verdun, an ambitious new commander in chief, General Robert Nivelle, staked his career on a decisive punch through the German lines which, he implied, would end the war in weeks. The fanfare and prepara-:ions were so grand that the Germans mew all about it in advance. Nivelle knew they knew it, but he went ahead anyway. And from April 16 to May 9, 1917, French troops flung themselves against the Germans' barbed wire, entrenched machine guns and presighted artillery until...
...Quiet. The President might have done better to say nothing at all. By issuing even a mild pronouncement, he needlessly conveyed an impression that he continued to consider himself the ar biter of the industry's price decisions. And tactically, the statement was a blunder: by virtually inviting steel companies to go ahead with "selected price adjustments," he made it virtually impossible to fight later on if he decided that the increases were excessive after...