Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan to become involved in this desperate Shanghai engagement. Their original land-grabbing intentions were confined to the Peiping area and they had every reason not to waste ammunition and divide their strength by taking on another battle in Shanghai. Whether the navy's Shanghai move was a blunder, or whether the Japanese demands were a bluff which the Chinese called-perhaps more out of excitement than shrewdness-the result was a war big enough to endanger Japan's precarious economic structure. For the longer the war lasts, the greater, almost inevitably, will be Chinese defeats...
...urchin for a blunder...
...Third Reich had retaliated by ordering intelligent, slightly pontifical Norman Ebbutt, for twelve years correspondent in Berlin of London's almost sacred Times, to be replaced by ''somebody less concerned with trivialities and more with facts." The British were shocked, regarded it as a blunder for the German Government to suggest that the dispatches of Norman Ebbutt, a distinguished journalist, were unfair. He got into trouble with Nazis in 1933 for reporting truthfully that many Germans were afraid to vote against the Government in the plebiscite because of the possibility of marked ballot papers, but as recently...
...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...