Word: blunderer
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...find themselves in a room together: "I actually feel quite slighted by my rooming assignment. I wish I'd been put in Mass Hall because it predates the revolution" states Ricky. Surely, Ricky was guaranteed a spot in Mass Hall by putting a '2' for quietness. Yet, in another blunder in his housing assignment, Ricky was assigned to a roommate who had put a '3' for quietness, thus ruining his chances at sharing a 'flat' with President Rudenstine. But as things stand, the roommates get along because, as Carlos puts it: "we keep different schedules" (pronounced she-du-ehls...
...strategy carried risks--notably that Bush would start to seem not just tough but Visigothic. That problem was solved when McCain made his one colossal blunder of the campaign--a move Bush aides call "a gift...
...their probing line of questioning. Did he understand what was at stake when he decided to write classifed documents on his personal computer? CIA insiders, including George Tenet, the agency's current leader, agree that Deutch's security lapse was very serious, but are publicly insisting that Deutch's blunder does not approach the gravity of the Los Alamos breach allegedly orchestrated...
...British--schools, courts, goods, even the English language. He believed mass noncooperation would achieve independence within a year. Instead, it degenerated into bloody rioting, and British soldiers turned their guns on a crowd in Amritsar, massacring 400. Gandhi called his underestimating of the violence inside Indian society his "Himalayan blunder." Still, villagers mobbed him wherever he went, calling him Mahatma. By 1922, 30,000 followers had been jailed, and Gandhi ordered civil disobedience. The British slowed the momentum by jailing him for 22 months...
...decision to bring Maher into the Safra household was the biggest blunder of all. The New York Times said Maher was offered the job after he returned a camera left by a close Safra associate. Bonnant says Maher had been carefully vetted through "in-depth background checks" and a personal interview with Mrs. Safra. "The fact that Maher is unstable became apparent to us only after the accident," Bonnant told TIME. "Nothing in Maher's files showed the slightest trace of mental instability...