Word: blunderer
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...Negro, had been "extorting money from gamblers for the purpose of transmitting this money to police officers.'' Later, in a TV interview, he called Mrs. James "a bagwoman for the police department." That seemingly pointless attack on one of his own race proved to be a costly blunder...
According to State Representative Mary B. Newman (R.-Camb.), "I know of no one who is supporting Pompeo's reappointment." She added, "I cannot imagine Peabody making such a collosal political blunder as to reappoint...
...immediately trumpeted across France by the right-wing press and the government's unabashedly partisan TV and radio network, which reminded Frenchmen of the unsavory Socialist -Communist -Radical "Popular Front" government that unforgettably permitted Hitler to reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936. Backing away from Mollet's blunder, Socialist Party strategists in such strongholds as Marseille refused to make any deals with the Communists. In dozens of constituencies, including Mollet's, Communist candidates who scored heavily in the election's first round did in fact withdraw in favor of Socialists and other candidates who had any hope...
Tiger halfbacks often offered only token opposition to the Crimson press: Tiger passing was sloppy, its offense impotent. ("We're not as bad as we look," said the Princeton coach.) When the Tiger line managed to blunder through Harvard halfbacks Emmanual Boye, Fred Churchill, and Larry Coburn. Crimson fullback Lou Williams consistently blasted the ball 30 yards upfield to the Harvard line. With Williams and Terry Winslow clearing loose balls, goalie Wally Whitney had to make only one desperate save. He threw himself at a hard shot to the corner of the goal and batted the ball down for Williams...
...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...