Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their livelier cousins, the St. Quentyns. Alastair Chappell, the last of his line, was a little too sensitive for his own comfort. When he rebelled against the more brutal traditions of the regiment it looked as if he would never make a soldier. Alastair made an almost unforgivable blunder when he turned down the chance of marrying his colonel's daughter and fell in love with his cousin, Katherine St. Quentyn. Worse, he took advantage of Katherine's pity to spoil her good name. Luckily the Crimean War had begun or the St. Quentyns would have certainly called...
...Downright Judicial Blunder!" screamed a bulletin from the Nazi Party official news bureau. "We demand a fundamental reform of our judicial system. To avert another such decision German Justice must be purged of outworn, alien and liberal conceptions...
TIME (issue of Dec. 5, p. 21), probably sensing the bias that the press blunder anent nudism and cancer might cause, sought to regain the intellectual status quo by publishing the "Health Wedding'' story together with an enlightening, timely, two-column cut. In doing so, TIME scooped all conservative magazines...
...feel that this alters your conclusions, but in any case I am calling it to your attention, as a blunder of this sort weakens your case considerably...
Nebraska, perennial champion of the Big Six, held Pitt once on the 22-yd. line, once on the 14-yd. line, twice on the 2 -yd. line-where in the first half an official's blunder gave Nebraska the ball when Pitt had used only three downs. Finally, in the last period, inside Nebraska's loyd. line, Shedlosky passed to Nicksick-for the Pitt touchdown that...