Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aimed at "a good to be affected or an evil to be avoided." All sincerely believed that their policies would save lives and shorten the war. They turned out to have chosen the wrong means. That was not a crime that any court can remedy; it was a tragic blunder...
Last week the four airmen turned up safely at their billets -a deliverance due not to police efforts but to a monumental blunder by the kidnapers. The Americans were being confined in a closet and the tiny hall of an apartment near Ankara's embassy row. When a police car pulled up in front of the building, the young Turks mistakenly assumed that it was a raid, and fled. The Americans noticed that the apartment had suddenly gone quiet. After waiting a few agonizing moments to make sure their abductors had departed, they simply walked out and took...
Asked how Thieu could have made such an apparent blunder, Father Tin said, "He has used strong measures to rule. He has used them against the students and veterans last year and succeeded. Now he thinks he can do the same with the press...
Conservationists never saw the canal as anything but a huge environmental blunder (TIME, April 13). By connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the 9-ft.-deep waterway would have saved shippers a 600-mile journey around Florida. But, as Nixon's Council on Environmental Quality noted, its construction would have inundated the Oklawaha River basin, a unique and beautiful area abounding in wildlife. Critics also charged that the canal would pollute nearby ground-water supplies and they insisted that the locks would be too small to permit profitable traffic loads...
Attorney William Kunstler visited Berrigan yesterday at the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Conn., where he is serving a six-year sentence for destroying draft records in Maryland. Afterwards, Kunstler issued a statement by Berrigan and said Berrigan viewed the charges as "a colossal blunder" which the government "has stampeded into" because of accusations of a similar plot made last November by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover...