Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Biographer Robinson, the U.S. was suffering from a paralytic failure of nerve. F.D.R.'s "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" injected the adrenaline of confidence into the fluttering heart of the nation's economy. It was followed by the wonder-and-blunder drugs-NRA, AAA, PWA, etc.-of the "First Hundred Days." The New Deal was born more or less by executive fiat, but Will Rogers probably echoed the electorate when he wrote, "I don't know what additional authority Roosevelt may ask, but give it to him, even...
...Stupid Blunder." Attlee seemed content to accept this apology. But more vociferous Labor voices were not: they were ready to turn the previous day's hail into a farewell. "An unbelievably stupid blunder," cried the Laborite Daily Herald. "It leaves Sir Winston no leg to stand on as a negotiator for peace." Other Opposition papers talked of Churchill's "failing powers." At week's end the attack took on real political weight. Ex-Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, a moderate who ranks second only to Attlee in the Labor hierarchy, declared bluntly: "If the faux...
...failure at the finish, however, is less important than a blunder at the beginning: the picture does not teach the audience to feel how Scobie feels about God, and until the spectator has that experience, he cannot experience the tragedy in its religious depths. What can be grasped, what is intensely set forth, is the tragedy of a man who is cursed with pity-the "folly" so terrible, in Nietzsche's pagan view, that it had killed God Himself...
...attacks on the German heartland. Hitler, in what many Western airmen would now call one of the critical decisions of World War II, refused to permit emergency development of the plane because "the Luftwaffe had disappointed him too often in the past with promises" of new developments. Later, piling blunder on blunder, Hitler ordered the new fighter rigged as a "blitz bomber" against the expected Western invasion. Technically incapable of the task, it never dropped a bomb on the Normandy beachhead...
...news story of Nov. 1 entitled "Sophomore suffers injury in 'Accident' at Claverly" reeks of editorialization. Your journalism is in severe question when you grasp for such devices as setting "accident in quotation marks and dwelling on such an irrelevancy as the "instrument" blunder...