Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominee," he said, "to pick his running mate. This is Mr. Nixon's day, and I have no comment." Privately, however, Rocky was furious, looking upon the choice of the obscure Maryland Governor as not only a personal slap in the face but also a serious blunder on Nixon's part. Agnew, he felt, was simply not up to the job. "It's Nixon's idea of how to solve the nation's problems," said a Rockefeller aide, "mix oil and water. People are throwing up all along Collins Avenue...
...gave you." In sympathetic Yugoslavia, Radio Belgrade announced that Dubček had "successfully defended more than he has had to concede." Describing the dimensions of the setback to Soviet foreign policy, the station said that the campaign of pressure against the Czechoslovaks was "a blasphemy, a heavy political blunder and a failure...
...action and are both shot to death. Stoppard is a ' word mimic and a born parodist. But parody is parasitic and needs a strong host body. With Hamlet as host, Stoppard worked wonders. Apart from a few antic moments, The Real Inspector Hound is a lazy blunder...
Then, sensing his blunder, he asked if he could "take that back." Instead, he said that "It's not as if the technique doesn't work, it's just that in a few circumstances it is misused. Some people stop meditating, but it is usually found that those few who may temporarily stop will come back. Anybody who is willing to come to checks will find very positive results...
Colored Ruthless. Nor was Kennedy's growing unrest over Viet Nam an act. He played the issue for political advantage, to be sure, but he also became increasingly convinced that the massive U.S. military commitment was a blunder that threatened catastrophe. He had helped plant the roots of Johnson's Viet Nam policy during the Kennedy Administration, and he acknowledged it: "But past error is no excuse for its own perpetuation. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live...