Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilots go up to drink the "black champagne" of death. Up in the "blue shell" of the sky with "the needles on the instrument panels as light as ghosts' tongues," the fighter pilots "hammer their woodpecker's tune, exact, refined and cruel," and they die. Civilians blunder into the nightmare at Janneby West like extras stumbling onstage at the wrong cue. A wife, summoned to her husband's funeral, finds it was all a mistake; after his plane plummeted to earth there was nothing left to bury. An aging father comes to visit his son only...
...genius of American Government. I say it is dangerous to have a man so completely inept and unequipped for this responsible position occupy the office of Secretary of Defense." When Russell sat down, not a Republican rose to defend Wilson. Then, as most Republicans quietly fumed over the Wilson blunder, the Democrats rammed through a slightly shaved $960 million "present" to Dwight Eisenhower's Air Force, sent the completed defense bill (total: $34.6 billion) to the White House for his signature...
President Eisenhower's greatest foreign-policy blunder, Harriman implies, was his conduct at last summer's Parley at the Summit at Geneva: "It was. without question, right and proper that he should have gone there'. . . But it was of the greatest importance that he make no mistake . . . The impression was conveyed to the world that the cold war was over . . . The President gave every evidence of personal trust in the Kremlin leaders and even went so far as to credit the Russians with a desire for peace no less earnest than that of the West . . . Tensions relaxed...
...first glance, the decision seemed to be a clear-cut victory for Autherine and the N.A.A.C.P. But the conspiracy charge, although probably a lawyer's stratagem to make a complaint as broad as possible, proved to be a blunder. It not only inflamed white opinion against Autherine, it also stiffened the attitude of the trustees...
...total miscomprehension and hatred." His hands trembled, and his voice was little more than a whisper. His first retreat was to accept the resignation of 79-year-old General Georges Catroux, whom he had appointed Minister for Algeria (TIME, Feb. 13). Catroux' appointment had been a political blunder in the first place. To Algerian French, Catroux was "the liquidator'' of France's presence in Syria and Lebanon, the man who had presided over the return of Morocco's Sultan ben Youssef from exile -and they had reacted fiercely and predictably. The blunder was compounded...