Word: blunderer
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...Petrov disclosures had led to no arrests. But to suggest that the word of Moscow should be solicited, let alone be taken seriously, displayed at the least a queer and profound naiveté on the part of a longtime high minister who aspired to govern Australia. It seemed a blunder that could wreck the Labor Party's chances of achieving office for some time to come. At any rate, the issue, all hotted up by Evatt's dealings with Molotov, offered too good an opportunity for the Liberals to pass up. Last week, Prime Minister Menzies, with...
...letter to Kommunist, top party organ of the Central Committee, First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Molotov, who got into the movement in 1906 at the age of 16, admitted that at the ripe, Red age of 64 he had committed a "theoretically mistaken and politically harmful" blunder by understating the extent of Socialist success in Soviet Russia...
...living among all but party people. These were experts in that kind of concealment, and they laughed appreciatively at Bulganin's easy reference to the "vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything." But it was a guffaw all too reminiscent of Vishinsky's famous blunder ("I could hardly sleep all last night . . . because I kept laughing," said Vishinsky of U.S. peace proposals in 1951). Newsmen spread the story across the world's wires: Russians laugh down Eisenhower's peace proposal...
...first, when commuters objected, President McGinnis snapped angrily that he was not running "the Ford Foundation," and added: "Because I want to charge a lousy five bucks, people act as though I've torn up the tracks." Last week he realized that such cracks were "a public-relations blunder." He postponed indefinitely the Norwalk parking fee, scheduled a series of meetings to mollify the New Haven's commuters...
G.O.P. Leaders Joe Martin and Charlie Halleck were quick to recognize Cannon's blunder and to line up the Republican votes in disciplined ranks. Top Democrats were flabbergasted when they realized what Clarence Cannon had done. After three hours of debate with nearly 50 heated speeches, the House defeated the Cannon plan, 198 to 169. Having botched matters thoroughly, the Democrats let the bill-including the funds for the TVA-Dixon-Yates link-slide through on a voice vote, and glumly sent it on to the Senate...