Word: blunderer
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...College Board didn't respond to the incident with a profound apology, or even an indifferent "oops." In fact, this was neither a freak accident, nor a bureaucratic blunder. "It was not a slip-up," asserted Ray Nicosia of ETS. Defending the practice of reusing old exams, he said that ETS has been repeating versions of the SAT for "a great many years." Janice Gams of the College Board, adding to the don't-worry-we-know-what-we're-doing defense, suggested that when students have no knowledge that the exam will be repeated, "seeing the test form...
...nuclear power. "He thought he could prove to the French and the world that because of his decision France was back, and he was an authentic President," wrote Serge July, influential editor of the left-leaning daily Liberation. "Instead the world and the French have witnessed the planetary blunder of a President out of step with the [post-cold...
...Cinderella-like spectacle as prosecutors sought a fit for the case's famous bloodied gloves. "They're too small," said Simpson as he struggled, at prosecutor Christopher Darden's behest, to pull the allegedly incriminating gloves over his hands-a turn of events that was widely perceived as a blunder for the prosecution. Darden quickly suggested Simpson was faking his difficulty, then solicited expert testimony that the blood-soaked leather gloves had shrunk...
...dishing to a streaking Dennis Johnson in the 1986 NBA Eastern Conference Championships or the ball going between Bill Buckner's legs in the sixth game of the 1986 World Series. No, the memories that flashed through my mind had little to do with extraordinary play or unimaginable blunder. They had everything to do with family...
...course the U.S. can still blunder. It might get into a struggle--in Bosnia, say--that it could not win in a reasonable time or at an acceptable price. Even so, the imperatives of the cold war have been replaced by an entirely different limiting factor: the difficulty of finding America's vital interests at stake in other people's conflicts. During the cold war the question was posed as, Is there any reason we can't intervene? Now it is, Why should...