Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council has made a blunder in failing to invite Israeli speakers to a Middle East conference on Nov. 7-9, Elliot Gershon '61, president of the Harvard Zionists, declared yesterday...
...wonder if Goren, "perhaps the world's most tolerant partner," would forgive the unforgivable blunder TIME committed in the name of the Gerber Convention when TIME responds "four diamonds for one ace, four hearts for two, etc." Four diamonds, of course, means no aces...
...Blunder Last Spring...
...appeasement of British Labor, and thought it bad to base Western policy on an opposition that holds no responsibility. Piqued at first at being excluded from the U.S.-British foray into the Middle East, the French had been congratulating themselves ever since. "It saved France from making a blunder," said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. The French quickly saw in their accidental neutrality in this particular conflict a splendid chance to play procedural arbiter between West and East, and so to re-establish France among the top diplomatic powers. The situation suited lofty Charles de Gaulle...
Oscar's appearance was typical. "I don't appear here in humility," he told his audience. "I made an excusable blunder-considering the circumstances that I was humiliated-of using my power for fractional, justifiable vindictiveness." As for Philco, "I will not tolerate any capricious whim, right or wrong (and I was right as usual), to deter my passionately loyal fans from purchasing this great product...