Word: blunderer
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...blunder has been made by the Queen's advisers, and it is hard to see how they will extricate themselves from the booby trap." The London Evening Standard spoke like a firm but indulgent nanny; half a dozen other London papers chimed in with dismay, outrage, chagrin. Cause of the clamor-and envy: the news that Antony Armstrong-Jones is going to work for the opposition...
...becoming ever clearer that the U.S. committed a tragic blunder last August in allowing the Reds to put up their wall through Berlin-and thus to win a test of strength with the West. The fact that the Wall has by now become the most familiar landmark in Berlin only makes the situation more poignant. Last week James Bell, TIME bureau chief in Germany, toured the 25-mile barrier. His report...
...assume they are not testing? . . . Our Allies are watching what we do, not what we say." Backed by a dozen other Senators,* Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to resume nuclear tests immediately. Stopping the tests in 1958, said Dodd, "was the most fatuous blunder in all our history...
...West's first great blunder, according to Kennan, was World War I. Following the military deadlock of the fall of 1914, he says, there should have been a compromise peace. For total victory was impossible, due to the fact that modern warfare is too blunt and undiscriminating an instrument for the accomplishment of any aim other than mass destruction...
...their own aims. It could never have accomplished its purpose--the overthrow of the Bolsheviks--and it served only to help the Soviet Government rally the forces of nationalism. The Allies also passed up a number of opportunities to retire gracefully from the intervention, thus compounding the blunder...