Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mendès maintained that the new Soviet activity represents merely "economic expansion" of the kind Western nations practiced a century and less ago. The recent Soviet-bloc arms deals with Egypt, added Mendès, were provoked by "the unlucky Baghdad pact, which constituted for the West a blunder ..." Antoine Pinay's signature on the NATO communique...
Reflecting on the activities of our Secretary of State last week, one can only conclude that Dulles has done it again. Not content with his "mass retaliation" blunder, he again stumbled, this time apparently after looking very carefully at the pit before him. Searching for peace, Dulles again has dropped a bomb, needlessly irritating a people whom we hope to secure as allies. By referring to Goa as a Portuguese province Dulles managed to enrage the Indians. And amazingly enough, after having aroused them for no good purpose, he still refuses, in his good old blunt way, to offer...
...This blunder nosed out the Pittsburgh-West Virginia play, where an extra point was kicked when there were no goalposts...
Deadfall's first blunder is to show all this at the outset, so that the second, or courtroom, half of the evening merely drives in the coffin nails. There is no suspense and-a second serious error-no final twist that might help save the day. Among other blunders, the writing is studiously mediocre...
...honorable and slightly obsolete figure." At these words Robert Taylor recoils. It is startling enough for a 44-year-old matinee idol to hear himself described like an overage destroyer; but to be addressed in literate and amusing English smack-dab in the middle of a Hollywood thud-and-blunder opus is a shock almost as sharp as seeing Sir Walter Scott in the old Stut 'n' Tup on Beverly Boulevard...