Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worst Blunder." When White House pressure grew stronger, many businessmen became loudly critical of both Kennedy and Blough. A Los Angeles aerospace executive called the sudden raise "the worst blunder by the steel industry since the days when they called up strikebreakers to shoot at the workers." Said the head of a sugar company: "Maybe the steel people did need a price increase, but going about it in the way they did puts a plague on all our houses." The business community was plainly apprehensive of Kennedy's wrath. Said Willard F. Rockwell, chairman of Rockwell-Standard Corp. (axles...
...other visible qualifications," acidly suggested that relatives of "prominent officials" should "present some solid evidence of talent before they make the sacrifice of starting at the top." The Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston predicted that "this whole exercise may prove to be the first Kennedy political blunder in years. In politics, nothing fails like success after a while. One Kennedy is a triumph, two Kennedys at the same time are a miracle, but three could easily be regarded by many voters as an invasion...
...blunder has been made by the Queen's advisers, and it is hard to see how they will extricate themselves from the booby trap." The London Evening Standard spoke like a firm but indulgent nanny; half a dozen other London papers chimed in with dismay, outrage, chagrin. Cause of the clamor-and envy: the news that Antony Armstrong-Jones is going to work for the opposition...
...becoming ever clearer that the U.S. committed a tragic blunder last August in allowing the Reds to put up their wall through Berlin-and thus to win a test of strength with the West. The fact that the Wall has by now become the most familiar landmark in Berlin only makes the situation more poignant. Last week James Bell, TIME bureau chief in Germany, toured the 25-mile barrier. His report...
...assume they are not testing? . . . Our Allies are watching what we do, not what we say." Backed by a dozen other Senators,* Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to resume nuclear tests immediately. Stopping the tests in 1958, said Dodd, "was the most fatuous blunder in all our history...