Word: blundered
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...mostly remained at Salamanca, his capital, filling the role of Rightist Spain's President, but last week he hurried to field headquarters. There, rubbing his hands with a satisfaction at least well simulated, General Franco remarked that the Spanish Leftists seemed to have committed the "almost unbelievable blunder" of persisting in efforts to hold Brunete with a large force, although the flanks of their advance to this spearhead had been so driven in by the Rightists that, in the orthodox military view, it had become untenable-a death trap...
...much that the danger passes, as that they find that they never were really in any genuine trouble anyway. What they took for a flood was really only a cloudburst, and the hermetically sealed door and windows only served to make the room stuffy. The result of this blunder is a wave of cynicism decidedly more bitter than ever could have been the moral letdown following a period of real rather than imaginary distress...
...Flynn, last seen in the uniform of a British lancer in The Charge of the Light Brigade, somewhat less advantageously swathed in the white tunic of a U. S. medico. He is Dr. Newell Paige, an irreligious but idealistic young surgeon who, when a patient dies because of a blunder by his superior, generously takes the blame. The daughter (Anita Louise) of the mishap's victim likes Dr. Paige at first sight, hates him when she suspects him of being responsible for her mother's death. When this situation has been straightened out by the surgical nurse (Margaret...
This strained and unnatural situation was resolved last week when G. M. President Sloan capped Leader Lewis' blunder with one of his own. After winning much public sympathy by his reasonableness throughout the strike, Mr. Sloan decided to get tough, flatly rejected Secretary of Labor Perkins' summons to a further Washington peace parley. As if they were playing a game of "Going to Jerusalem," a second principal in the deadly serious Automobile War of 1937 lost his seat in the New Deal's favor...
...their fight. "Labor is on the march in this country toward those better things .and better days so eloquently described from time to time by the President of the United States." The words were hardly off Mr. Lewis' mimeograph when it appeared that he had made a tactical blunder in advertising quite so blatantly that he was on the march. First, and least important from Mr. Lewis' standpoint, Messrs. Sloan and Knudsen promptly walked out and abandoned their conference with Governor Murphy and Madam Secretary Perkins. Mr. Sloan declared that after Mr. Lewis' demand it was "futile...