Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charge of the Light Brigade and TIME'S [May 10] review of The Reason Why: It's too obvious to be another "story of a blunder" . . . when you reported that "some 700 horsemen" rode, etc., but Alfred, Lord Tennyson sent in only "six hundred." At least, a footnote to keep us straight...
...Russia, "the leadership would be his reward,'' noted the Manchester Guardian, "but there is nothing more improbable in politics than that Mr. Bevan will succeed." Bitterest of all was the Laborite tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000): "Again he has shown that the greatest blunder the party could make would be to elect him leader . . . For who can follow a whirlwind? How can a man who does not give loyalty expect to command loyalty from others...
...life of the visionary mathematician. But he seems to have preferred quantity to quality. In 1877 he records and cites by name and nickname a record haul-35 tamed or half-tamed little girls in the course of one short summer holiday. He also records the most shocking blunder of his life-chastely kissing little "Atty" Owen, a "child" who turned out to be 17. "Mrs. Owen treats the matter quite seriously! She adds, 'We shall take care it does not recur...
Paratrooper Ladd obdurately refuses a commission (his reason: as a U.S. officer he once ordered a friend to jump and the friend died), but his reluctance to be a leader is finally overcome in battle when the paratroopers, successfully dodging the Nazis in the desert, blunder into a minefield. Newcomer Susan Stephen makes an appealing foil for Ladd: she is peppery enough in the early reels, and sufficiently soft in time for the clinch. The Technicolor is generally excellent. Leo Genn, as a spit & polish British major, has an amusing scene; encountering the informal crew of a U.S. bomber...
...critical drought. Instead of requesting federal aid immediately, Shivers told the state's ranchers that federal relief would mean federal interference, and that they should "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps." It took heaps of dying cattle lying on the parched plains to convince him of his political blunder, and when he did request federal aid, it was almost too late...