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Word: blundered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without a warrant, without identifying themselves in any comprehensible way, the agents had terrorized the Giglottos for half an hour. A unique blunder by overzealous investigators trying to crack a narcotics ring? Hardly. A little later the same night in Collinsville, a service station operator, Donald Askew, 40, and his family were about to sit down for a late dinner when their dog began barking frantically. Askew's wife Virginia, 39, was the first to see the man standing outside the open living-room window. "I looked," says Askew, "and the man looked just like my boy, long hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: In The Name of the Law | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...pieces and made a decisive incursion the thirtieth move." With a ranking of 2148, Jacobs was the highest rated player in the tournament which lacked many of the top Harvard chess stars. Cooper's rating was in the 1300's. "I had a premonition I was going to blunder," Jacobs said, "but I never thought I'd get beat this bad, especially by a B player...

Author: By Charles M Kahn, | Title: UMaine Sweeps Chess Tourney; Harvard Takes 2nd, 3rd Spots | 2/20/1973 | See Source »

...right to say that John Kennedy was too skeptical and shrewd over to permit such a disastrous escalation of the conflict, we cannot blame Lyndon Johnson for every repressive American-supported regime throughout the world. The personality of Lyndon Bolnas Johnson is one reason for the criminal blunder in Vietnam. But the Vietnam War is anomalous only in its failure...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: The Whiz Kids Go To War | 11/29/1972 | See Source »

Even if McGovern sometimes seemed a little stupid as in the California $1000 give-away blunder, he was a decent and likable fellow. But this winning image disappeared within two weeks, just as most voters were beginning to find out about the unknown from South Dakota who had captured the Democratic nomination...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Recounting McGovern's Defeat While the Body Is Still Warm | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

...second Cadet blunder came with just 11 seconds remaining in the first half. Army's pass coverage woefully crumbled and the Sooners moved 37 yards in one play on a Chuck Lemieux bomb. With time left for only one more play. Harvard chose to have Gary Bond boot a field goal, making the tally, Harvard 10, Army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard 'Sooners' Erase Army, 19-0; Cadet Errors Aid Crimson in Victory | 10/21/1972 | See Source »

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