Word: blunderer
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...also described the buildings as too large for their surroundings, a "visual blunder" that she predicted Harvard would regret...
Plainly, neither China nor North Viet Nam reckoned on full-scale U.S. intervention in Viet Nam. Their blunder came as no surprise to Westmoreland. "They look out upon the world through very small windows," he says. "Their view of the rest of the world, and of America in particular, is what they want...
...never won a race at all. August Belmont gave his name to a famous race track (New York's Belmont Park), but he is better remembered as the fellow who bred Man o' War-and sold him as a yearling for $5,000. Aghast at his blunder, Belmont tried to reproduce the champion that got away. He mated Mahubah to Fair Play all over again and was rewarded with My Play, who won only nine minor races in four years...
...milieu, even his closest rivals for the President's favor have never accused him of using his influence unfairly. One official, who admitted recently to having "goofed one," said that Moyers went in to tell the President about it-without a word about who had actually made the blunder. "Johnson gave him a terrific chewing out," he recalls. "Moyers just stood there and took it and never passed...
...President exulted too soon. Last week, thanks to an incredible blunder by Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Robert Weaver, the pro gram was dead. Its demise was hastened by the curiosity of Michigan Republican James Harvey, 43, who found HHFA experts suspiciously reluctant to circulate the regulations covering financial eligibility for rent aid. Harvey demanded a copy and, as a member of the House's housing subcommittee, got one immediately. To his astonishment, Harvey found that under Weaver's HHFA-approved rules relating to the elderly and the handicapped (who could collect up to 70% of their...