Word: blunderer
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...Biggest blunder: Tried to "pack" the Supreme Court...
...last spring, the U.S. now bars the way and stands ready to repel any other attempted aggression. Unless Peking and Hanoi withdraw from South Vietnam--and lose face throughout Asia--it is the Communists themselves who risk being bogged in wars that they can neither afford nor end. Their blunder came as no surprise." --Jan. 7, 1966, from Man of the Year profile of General William Westmoreland...
...search for the fugitive named as a witness to the Birmingham abortion clinic bombing enters its fourteenth frustrating day, FBI agents decline to discuss the video that may reveal a bureau blunder. TIME writer Greg Fulton reports that the fugitive allegedly rented the tape at a store near his home on the night of the bombing. "That would suggest he only went on the run after the FBI went public with his name," says Fulton. In other words, if Rudolph's name hadn't been broadcast on TV that night, he might have been home when investigators arrived the next...
...beginning of this year, but the fact remains that the crossword is different (read: worse) than it was in the 1996-97 school year. It's much easier (certainly able to be completed in less than half a lecture) and often poorly formatted, as Friday's oversized-box blunder demonstrates. It's interesting to note that Joshua Kaufman's column singing the praises of the illustrious crossword ("Viva la Crossword," Feb. 5) made certain to delineate that he was referring to the New York Times Crossword only. All crossword-lovers will agree that the Times crossword is the superior choice...
Which is why his response to the latest White House blunder says so much about Bill Clinton's presidency now. Four years ago, a staff member would rather have resigned than be the one to tell the boss about the ill-timed release of the videotapes made of Clinton's coffees with big-money donors. Yet when deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills brought him the news, first disclosed by TIME, Clinton responded in private much as he did last week in public: with frustration, but also with fatalistic detachment. "He doesn't do the big temper tantrum as much...