Word: blunderer
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...graphics and all the descriptive information about the honeybee in "The Buzz on Bees" [Nov. 6] were truly magnificent. But there was an enormous blunder in the story's introductory sentence, "We don't give bees much thought unless they're terrorizing us at a picnic." Bees are not the least bit interested in picnickers or their food. Yellow jackets are the insects that take great delight in pirating our food even as it enters our mouths. It is disheartening to hear people blaming the bee for the bothersome foraging of the yellow jacket...
...confronted the roots of its problem in Iraq so long as it avoids the culpability of Cheney, Condi Rice, and President Bush himself - not to mention Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and all those revisionist media pundits who want to blame Rumsfeld for a strategic blunder in which they all had a hand...
...Middle East and on the East Coast, the verdict was the same: University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71 committed a momentous PR blunder at her annual Halloween party last week when she agreed to have her picture taken alongside a senior with fake red explosives on his chest...
...struggled through the thorny vines and stinging nettles covering the remote mountain slope in the Southern Highlands. "When I heard this, I knew it was going to be fantastic," he says. Switching on his tape recorder and headlamp, he moved carefully toward the sound, trying not to blunder into one of the limestone sinkholes that dot the area...
...hour competition waltzed on and every round whittled down its competitors by about half. Some of the dances went through four sets of cuts to reach the six-couple finals. “What I’m looking for is a good pairing, how they handle a blunder, and energy on the floor,” said Lisa Perry, one of the seven judges of the event. “Otherwise you’re going to get bored,” Competitors in successive rounds increased in skill, and the area beyond the floor was an unceasing flurry...