Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potential victory in Washington: four days after the House had rejected contra funding eleven months ago, he embarked on a well- publicized and ill-timed pilgrimage to Moscow. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who engineered the most recent defeat of the contra aid package, termed the invasion a "tremendous blunder" and disgustedly called Ortega "a bumbling, incompetent Marxist-Leninist, a Communist." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont quipped sarcastically that he "had heard a rumor that Daniel Ortega is secretly on the payroll of one of our intelligence agencies as a lobbyist for the Administration...
Indeed, Reagan will not be judged on his initial blunder about fraud in recent Philippine elections; he will be remembered for helping to remove a longstanding dictator and reestablishing a democracy in the island nation. His job was to oversee U.S. policy toward Marcos in the broadest sense...
...motives and frightened him by talking about punishment possibilities, including expulsion. The Dean of Freshmen pushed him to the brink of tears. In Sam's eyes no one in the FDO ever gave him the benefit of the doubt, or even questioned that maybe he'd made an innocent blunder. Instead, they questioned his motives and analyzed him and made him feel very badly. Sam's willingness to apologize, and even his desire to send a letter of apology to the GLSA apparently had little impact. No one would say that Sam was unconcerned about the issue. The FDO knew...
...first serious Quincy blunder occurred late in the first quarter, when a fourth-down snap sailed over punter John Toohey's head and ended up deep in Quincy territory...
...five wartime allies--the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Britain, France and China.* The cold war, however, quickly deadlocked the meetings, as the Soviet Union routinely vetoed U.S. initiatives. When North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, Moscow happened to be boycotting the Council. Only because of that Soviet blunder was the U.N. free to raise a force, mostly U.S.-manned and U.S.-led, to drive out the Communist invaders. Since then, the U.N. has never forcefully intervened in a war to restore peace...