Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard. To New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, a Kennedy supporter, it seemed particularly ridiculous that the President should bother to pop off at any segment of a press that has generally been more than kind. ("Never in recent American history has such a humiliating blunder as Cuba been passed over so lightly.") In the New York Daily News, Capital Columnist Ted Lewis urged Kennedy admirers to forgive Kennedy's "petulant purge." Said Lewis: "The man in the White House is overburdened. His problems frustrate him, for none of the big ones has an easy solution...
...book is an anthology of columns that Marx wrote for the New York daily Tribune (later to become the Herald Tribune) more than a century ago. The time was the ill-fated Crimean War of 1853-56, in which a British-French expeditionary force, after many a blunder, frustrated Czarist Russia's plans to swallow the Turkish Empire. Correspondent Marx, then an impoverished freelance journalist scribbling in a London slum, looked beyond the surface meaning of the war, beyond the imperious figure of the Czar, and saw a "barbarous" power embarked on a campaign of world conquest...
...circle. Suddenly Biff discovered he was being watched by a suspicious man who introduced himself as Doctor Drugg. Drugg persuaded Bundie to walk with him to his office for a discussion of urgent matters, and Bundie, forgetting the book bag, left with him. When he realized his blunder he dashed back to the Bick to find that the book bag had been taken by "a little man with snow white hair." Meanwhile, in the midst of a fire in the Chem 20 lab at Mallinckrodt, a mutilated, decapitated body was discovered in a fire blanket cabinet...
...Rescued by a passing junk, the six youngsters were vouched for by a Hong Kong relative who would guarantee their support. But the police arrested the six for illegal entry, brusquely pushed them back across the border. The Hong Kong Tiger Standard blasted the government for an "appallingly inhumane blunder." The president of Formosa's Free China Relief Association called the action "tantamount to sentencing the youths to death.'' Over the Fence. It was not simply a case of bureaucratic heartlessness. Since the Communists seized China in 1949. Hong Kong has absorbed a million refugees. Because...
...Tragic Blunder. Many papers and columnists shared the Wall Street Journal's incredulous despair. "A warning to all Americans," editorialized the 86-year-old Nashville Banner, "that the day of Free Enterprise is drawing to a close. Khrushchev could be right when he said: 'Your grandchildren will live under Socialism...