Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of his criticism to the other services. He pans Army brass for not pushing through plans to seize Rome by air after Mussolini's fall; had they done so, he says, the slogging campaign up southern Italy would not have been needed. Anzio, he thinks, was a blunder. But in general, says Morison, the Italian campaign was worth it all-unpopular like Grant's Wilderness campaign of 1864, but equally a campaign that had to be fought. Its bloody cost was more than repaid in Normandy's victories weeks later...
...show the French people that the U.S. disapproved of their premier's policy towards E.D.C. In contrast, the slightly awkward haste with which Dulles has sought out Mendes-France during the past few days seems a patch-work way of atoning for what could possibly be a serious diplomatic blunder...
...tactical successes. Amateur Scholar Joshua Podro has somehow contrived to satisfy real Jewish scholars of the highest professional standing that he has an enviably deep knowledge of the purely Aramaic setting of the Gospel story. Nor has "Crank" Robert Graves yet been caught out in any historical blunder which invalidates his findings on the Graeco-Roman side of the problem; though he dared tempt British New Testament experts with valuable money prizes if they could spot one. Together they have even persuaded leading U.S. Protestant Theologian Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr to take the book seriously with: "The authors have labored...
...group of Teheran editors summoned to his home, Zahedi said: "Recent events have made all of us realize that it is an absolute blunder in international conflicts to remain aloof from the course of world events. These days, no country can live in isolation. We have witnessed how aggressors have wantonly occupied neutral countries . . . We have to increase national resistance to all [such] aggressors...
Flanders likened McCarthy to Dennis the Menace, explaining that McCarthy displays the "colossal innocence" of children "who blunder . . . into the most appalling situations as they ramble through the world of adults." Flanders wanted the Mundt committee to examine "the real heart of the mystery": the personal relationships between McCarthy, Counsel Cohn and Private Schine. Conn "seems to have an almost passionate anxiety" to retain Schine, observed Senator Flanders. As to Schine, he continued: "At times [McCarthy] seems anxious to rid himself of the whole mess, and then again, at least in the presence of his assistant [Cohn], he strongly supports...