Word: blundering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before, Penn had to commit one more blunder, a Craig Renfrew fumble which Bob Baggott, who, like the entire defense, played another great game, a point which should be obvious by now, and who has to be the best defensive end in the Winthrop-I entry, if not the entire league, recovered on the Penn...
...response, often dramatically altering government policy in the process. President Ford has been no exception. Both candidates are challenged to please as many voters as possible, to cater to a completely heterogeneous assortment of values and beliefs while appearing consistent and self-controlled. After months of this they inevitably blunder and reel from the reaction...
Even in admitting that only an "incredible, incredible blunder" by the candidate could cost him Massachusetts, Ed Jesser, the campaign press secretary, stresses that Carter is running a full-scale operation here...
...last days of the presidential campaign, voter indecision remains the wild card. Jimmy Carter continues to lead, but both sides are nervously aware that any eleventh-hour blunder can cost their man the presidency...
...Norwegian resort town of Lillehammer, members of an Israeli assassination squad shot and killed a Moroccan waiter thought to be the chief of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Black September terrorists. The man was innocent, the Israeli agents were arrested. Perhaps the most serious consequence of the blunder was that the Mossad, the Israeli spy agency responsible for the killing, lost its reputation for reliability. When, a few days before the October War, the organization produced plans for the Arab attack, Israel's leaders were not convinced that the plans were genuine...