Word: blunderer
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...Look, battle-worn Correspondent Bigart flatly blamed MacArthur for the "unsound deployment of the United Nations forces and a momentous blunder." He shed an editorial tear for the "great tragedy that a man who served his country so nobly should be hounded and disparaged in the final hours of his career. But that," Bigart added, "is one of the occupational hazards of being a general. MacArthur grossly miscalculated . . . the forces against him. And no nation in the spot we are now in can string along with a leader whose ill-considered decision to launch the offensive of November 24 precipitated...
...gaps between the radar stations. Such attacks, says the Air Force's Air Defense Command, are a very real danger. Once a group of bombers passes the radars that watch the coasts and northern border of the U.S., it might "get loose" in the interior. Unless it should blunder into the field of a radar, the defending jet fighters would not know where to look...
...plot to influence the elections by the "heaven-sent opportunity of Korea ... Until we are stronger ... we should try to cut to the bare minimum the number of wars we enter solely to win local American elections." The New York Herald Tribune blamed General MacArthur for a "colossal military blunder" and said it is "impossible to put confidence in the military capacity of a headquarters which has so gravely compounded blunder by confusion of facts and intelligence." Manhattan's Daily Worker gleefully pointed out that in an article on Reds in the same issue, the Trib called criticism...
Discreet Backtracking. But it was soon clear that the scheme was a blunder that made almost everyone quite unhappy. If any Forest Hill pupils had not previously been aware of a distinction between Jew and gentile, they were certainly aware of it now. Said one gentile student: "The adults stirred up the fuss...
...Reuther. Said he in a letter to NSRBoss Stuart Symington: the new credit restrictions would create "mass unemployment before there is enough defense work and take materials out of civilian production before they are needed in defense production. They are discriminatory, ill-considered and dangerous. They are a grievous blunder . . . The Federal Reserve Board, living in a world of banker mentality and unaware of basic production problems, has . . . made a stab in the dark and the knife is in the backs of America's low-income families...