Word: blunderer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tiger halfbacks often offered only token opposition to the Crimson press: Tiger passing was sloppy, its offense impotent. ("We're not as bad as we look," said the Princeton coach.) When the Tiger line managed to blunder through Harvard halfbacks Emmanual Boye, Fred Churchill, and Larry Coburn. Crimson fullback Lou Williams consistently blasted the ball 30 yards upfield to the Harvard line. With Williams and Terry Winslow clearing loose balls, goalie Wally Whitney had to make only one desperate save. He threw himself at a hard shot to the corner of the goal and batted the ball down for Williams...
...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...
Rusk did not rule out all possibility of U.S. military action against Castro. The U.S. is "conducting a close surveillance of the Caribbean area," he said, and that "could lead to certain incidents which would involve the use of the armed forces." In other words, the U.S. could blunder into military action by accident. Furthermore, "if any elements of armed forces embarked from Cuba for any neighboring countries," U.S. military force would be used to "intercept" the invaders. But as long as Castro refrains from intervening outside Cuba, Rusk seemed to say, the U.S. will refrain from intervening inside Cuba...
...Evans are on stage, there are in the environs an entire company of players and & whole stage crew doing absolutely nothing. In none of the previous seven seasons has the Festival failed to present three full-scale play productions. I hope the lesson to be learned from the current blunder will not be lost on the board of trustees. Meanwhile, the Festival's commendable production of Richard II and Eric Berry's definitive Falstaff keep this season from being a total loss
...least so it went until Tuesday night. At that point the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra committed the irreparable blunder of presenting a public concert which rather swiftly defined their status: a "semi-professional" musician, the world may at last know, is a poorish amateur musician who wants you to pay good money to hear him play...