Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Common Market Commission President Jean Rey warned that failure by the Six to agree to negotiate with Brit ain would produce a "grave crisis" and be "a frightful political blunder." returning from a London visit with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Rey reported that Britain wanted no part of a lesser association with the EEC, or any other arrangement short of full membership...
This week, in a new book called To Seek a Newer World, Kennedy accuses Johnson of just such a blunder. In the early months of 1967, he writes, the U.S. "cast away what may well have been the last best chance to go to the negotiating table, on terms we clearly would have accepted before." At that time, he says, Hanoi was willing to begin talks if the U.S. would quit bombing the North. But the Administration, which had ordered a 37-day bombing pause a year earlier in the hope of achieving precisely that outcome, shifted its position...
Louise's Blunder. The mayoral rivals, Louise Hicks, 48, and Massachusetts Secretary of State Kevin White, 37, are both Irish Democrats, and for most of the campaign the issue though muted, was racial. Mrs. Hicks had established herself as the protector of Boston's lower-middle-class whites against forced school integration and black assertiveness in general. While Williams-educated White is no racial radical, he was clearly sympathetic to the ghetto's troubles...
...Communists "are as dangerous a menace as you would lead us to believe because of Viet Nam, then surely we could have no assurance that they would not use nuclear weapons." Retorted Dirksen: "They know that nobody ever won an earthquake, and they are not going to blunder into this...
Berlin remained the major cockpit of contention: in 1948, 1958 and 1961, it brought the antagonists near the brink but always just a step short. Then, in 1962, Khrushchev made his biggest blunder by putting Soviet missiles into Cuba. It was then, argues Halle, that the cold war reached its hottest point. Khrushchev's backdown was the Waterloo...