Word: blundered
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...been officially pronounced extinct," ran an editorial, "but it is already beyond the power of human aid. Only a miracle can save it. All the optimists confidently predicted for it has come to nothing. . . . Mr. MacDonald's intentions were admir able, but he made the same sort of blunder made by Sir Austen Chamberlain, who reached a preliminary naval understanding with France in 1927, and then submitted...
Idle would be any suggestion that Great Man Raymond Poincaré has not made great mistakes, but his constructive achievements have been so great that history will excuse even his colossal blunder of trying to squeeze reparations out of Germany by sending French troops to occupy the Ruhr (TIME, March...
...Fullerton, the celebrated baseball expert, bears me out in his article "The Game that Stirred the Nation," in Liberty, July 14, 1928. He writes: "Joe Mc-Ginnity, the 'Iron Man' pitcher of the Giants, who had been coaching at first base, had seen Merkle's fatal blunder. He ran into the field and rushed at Evers. The ball was tossed to Evers just as McGinnity tackled him. McGinnity tore the ball from his hands, and while they fought, threw it into the crowd sweeping into the diamond...
...said with entire confidence that the position of the British Government with respect to naval limitation is exactly as stated by Sir Esme. But 24 hours after he spoke people with good hindsight could see that he had made a shocking blunder from the viewpoint of the Empire's Foreign Secretary, frigid, be-monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...this only repeats a blunder common to 75% of the average careless reader of newspaper advertising...