Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conversation at Harvard is governed by certain tacit rules that preclude the expression of "childish" hopes and desires. "Naive" and "simplistic" are the guns cynics call out when someone commits a blunder, and, if one persists, the ultimate disapproval of "romantic" is mouthed and salving looks are nodded. Brass tacks puncture floating balloons...
Moments before, after recovering a Holt fumble, the Lions had taken the ball all the way to the Crimson 12, only to be stopped by an interception. Columbia was moving consistently against the uninspired Harvard defense, the Crimson offense was committing blunder after blunder, and the crowd was in a frenzy...
...write a letter of endorsement for every G.O.P. Senator and Congress man up for election. Invited to suggest what should go into his letter, one bitter Republican snapped: "That he's sorry he pardoned Nixon, that he just doesn't know how he could have made that blunder...
...however, suffered so badly as the New Democratic Party, which had held the balance of power in the House of Commons. Canadian voters blamed the N.D.P. pitilessly for having brought down the government two months ago by failing to support the Trudeau budget, thus provoking the election. For its blunder, the party lost nearly half its parliamentary seats, falling from 31 to 16, while David Lewis, its leader, was given an ignominious last hurrah by Toronto Freelance Writer Ursula Appolloni, making her first race. Good humoredly, Lewis bade farewell: "One of the basic democratic rights is the right...
...roughly where it wants to be led; or does a leader appear first to tell the public where it wants to be led? Woodrow Wilson held that leadership is "interpretation" or articulation: "The forces of the public thought may be blind; [the leader] must lend them sight; they may blunder; he must set them right." But Wilson cautioned that the leader must not get too far ahead of his public: "He must read the common thought; he must test and calculate very circumspectly the preparation of the nation for the next move in politics." (On the League of Nations issue...