Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compelled to import more oil. That could drive upward the U.S. deficit in its balance of payments, which, in turn, might force the Government to lessen the pace of the recovery. Unless the U.S. summons up a high degree of self-discipline and coherent economic policy, the nation could blunder into the frustrating pattern of stop-go economics in which every boom would be choked off by the ever-present counterforces that it unwillingly-but inevitably-brings into play...
Furthermore, although Muskie's crying incident is considered less disastrous in light of other actions by recent Presidents (besides, we can be reminded. Lincoln used to cry), another such blunder would be fatal, Still, as Goodwin pointed out, it's unlikely Muskie would commit the same mistakes the second time around. "He's probably learned something. He wouldn't cry this time. He could get by with some amphetamines in 1976 like Humphrey...
...played since he became U.S. champion at the incredible age of 14, he has won 327 and drawn 188. But even Fischer occasionally loses; in the past 16 years he has booted 61 games. To whom? At what age? Was he playing white or black? Did he blunder? Was he outgeneraled? Do any patterns of weakness appear? In the most intriguing chess manual of the year, Mednis ransacks all 61 games for evidence as to how the great man might just possibly be beaten...
...explanation was what Sinologists were calling the "fairy caves" theory: that Mao has withdrawn from day-to-day affairs to ponder China's future. Twice before Mao removed himself from the political battlefront: in the late 1950s, when his Great Leap Forward was proving to be a ghastly blunder backward; and in the mid-1960s, when he feared that bureaucracy would strangle the revolution and he retired to plan the Cultural Revolution...
...terms of moving toward peace," he said recently. As for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whose plan for a gradual settlement is in clear danger, he believes that two things are needed now: a "cooling off" period for the Arabs to contemplate what the Secretary regards as their blunder in endorsing Arafat; and a period of "quiet diplomacy" for Kissinger and his aides to convince the Arabs that they should keep their options open...