Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baby & the Bath. "Had Flesch written his book 30 years ago, he would have been on sounder ground. He might even have saved American schools from a bad blunder. Phonics, the prevailing system of the past, was kicked out the door of the little red schoolhouse in the mid '20s. New research-especially on eye movements and on the psychology of learning-convinced educators that there was a better way of teaching reading. It was learned that the mature reader does not spell his way through words, letter by letter, but reads by phrases. Besides, educators found that...
...congratulate you for your excellent April 18 article on Formosa ... I hope, however, you will permit me to point out that the report on General MacArthur's "historic blunder" was inaccurate. In July 1950 I was the chief of the Chinese mission in Japan. I accompanied the general to Formosa. There was a heavy fog that day . . . Our President waited in his car. Suddenly, we came out of the clouds and landed. General MacArthur asked me to get off the plane first so that I could introduce him to our officials. Vice President Chen Cheng was standing beside...
What about a Republican Policy Committee's pamphlet on "National Defense Under the Republican Administration," with detailed information on new weapons, which was cleared by the Defense Department? Ike replied that printing and releasing it publicly was obviously a "blunder." Then he defined what he thought the Government's information policy should be. Said the President: "Everything ought to be given out that helps the public of the United States to profit from past mistakes, to make decisions of the moment . . . But . . . it doesn't help any of us to make a decision merely to know that...
Obviously the Russians wanted propaganda fodder from the visit. We have give them plenty--first, a year's wait for permission to enter the country; then, the carefully-selected itinerary which read like a page from an Intra-Tourist manual; and now, the business of fingerprints. This last blunder is inexcusable...
...Vice President Chen Cheng, 57, whom he has designated as his successor. A small man whose delicacy of talk and manner conceals a capacity for decisive, even ruthless action, Chen is a smaller, less commanding version of Chiang himself in appearance-a circumstance that led to a historic blunder when General MacArthur flew to Formosa in 1950, stepped from his airplane, seized then-Premier Chen and kissed him on both cheeks, exclaiming: "I have been waiting all my life for this moment." Generalissimo Chiang, standing near by, was not pleased...