Word: blunderer
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...Blunder. Then Palmer, normally a flawless sand player, made an $8,000 blunder. He blasted out too strongly, belted his ball over the green and into the gallery, 25 ft. from the pin. Palmer stalked about the green, shaking his head, talking furiously to himself, while his playing partner, Charlie Coe, holed out. Finally Palmer took a putter, addressed his ball-and pushed it a full 12 ft. past the cup. A return putt was wide. Palmer finished with an incredible double-bogey six, slipped into a second-place tie (worth $12,000) with fast-closing Amateur Coe. New Masters...
...contradition between the words of one high government official and the actions of another is only one of the ironies of this inexplicable blunder. The most implausible aspect is the identity of the would-be censor: Edward R. Murrow. During his 25 years as a radio and television news commentator Murrow consistently up-held the principles of freedom of information. When some of his programs were criticized on the grounds that they portrayed the U.S. in an unfavorable light, he replied--quite correctly--that the faults as well as the virtues of the country must be exposed if other nations...
...intolorable handling of the National Collegiate Athletic Association hockey tournament situation by the Faculty Committee on Athletics has been not only a public relations blunder but the start of a poor precedent. It now looks like an annual affair...
...campaign on the Bible as servative, as well as educated. Unlike in the last century, British evangelism has become purely a middle class, es- an authority. Protestant liberalism, he claims, is dying out, and those now drawn to the Church are religiously con-pecially since Billy Graham made the blunder of alienating English workers by inveighing against socialism in one of his visits...
...takes it. At the next regimental rout he defiantly leads a drunken reel. The colonel throws a tantrum, disgracing him self before his officers and the battalion before its guests. But the triumph and the whisky go to Jock's head, and he makes an even more costly blunder than the colonel's: he "bashes" a corporal (John Eraser) for walking out with his daughter (Susannah York). A court-martial is indicated. The colonel generously refuses to order it. To his amazement, the battalion interprets his generosity as weakness, and old Jock cannily abets the error. The train...