Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there were some. A serious Washington Post blunder occurred in October 1972. Immediately after the Los Angeles Times interview with Alfred Baldwin, Woodward and Bernstein came back with a story naming three men as recipients of the phone-tap transcripts that Baldwin had delivered to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. The names were picked up by other publications, but it turned out that the Post reporters had grabbed some raw, garbled FBI data. "The decision to rush into print was a mistake," Woodward and Bernstein wrote later...
...merely evidence of a brisk desire to keep the decks cleared by moving sold commodities along. At the trial, Lloyd produced car bons of several documents substantiating his side of the story and contended that the Rothkos' arrival in New York was caused by the blunder of someone in the Paris museum ("I'm not responsible for the French government making a mistake"). Other discrepancies of documents and dating, said Lloyd, were the fault of "stupid secretaries...
...overwhelming decision by the Medical faculty in March to restore pre-clinical training to the Basic Scientists wiped out what most considered a five-year blunder...
Then the opposition made a blunder of its own. Sensing Whitlam's embarrassment over the Gair affair, it attempted to use its Senate majority to bring down the government. Recklessly, it decided to vote down a money-supply bill essential for the day-to-day workings of the government...
...telling point. There were immediate charges that the report was a whitewash and Elazar was being made a scapegoat. The Tel Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot declared that both Premier Meir and Dayan were "full partners in the blunder," and should resign. The most serious threats came from within the ruling Labor Party. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, who was upset by the humiliation of his old comrade-in-arms Elazar, told Knesset colleagues that Dayan must go. There were rumors that Allon would back up his demands by threatening to resign himself...