Word: blundering
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...Cinderella-like spectacle as prosecutors sought a fit for the case's famous bloodied gloves. "They're too small," said Simpson as he struggled, at prosecutor Christopher Darden's behest, to pull the allegedly incriminating gloves over his hands-a turn of events that was widely perceived as a blunder for the prosecution. Darden quickly suggested Simpson was faking his difficulty, then solicited expert testimony that the blood-soaked leather gloves had shrunk...
...dishing to a streaking Dennis Johnson in the 1986 NBA Eastern Conference Championships or the ball going between Bill Buckner's legs in the sixth game of the 1986 World Series. No, the memories that flashed through my mind had little to do with extraordinary play or unimaginable blunder. They had everything to do with family...
...course the U.S. can still blunder. It might get into a struggle--in Bosnia, say--that it could not win in a reasonable time or at an acceptable price. Even so, the imperatives of the cold war have been replaced by an entirely different limiting factor: the difficulty of finding America's vital interests at stake in other people's conflicts. During the cold war the question was posed as, Is there any reason we can't intervene? Now it is, Why should...
...trying to retain as much of the $20 million as they could for the university's core endowment. They favored filling the four junior positions with existing faculty. Kagan and other original planners of the program resigned from the committee, and a new one was formed. In a colossal blunder, Levin failed to inform Bass of these changes, and when the new group expressed concerns, the members were told, according to a university source, "Don't worry about the donor...
...Americans' plight Tuesday morning, State Department officials began quietly negotiating for their release, hoping to avoid turning them into hostages to Saddam's agenda. White House officials declined to identify the two men or say what they had been doing in the region. "It was a mistake, a blunder on their part," said Defense Secretary William Perry, who was visiting Saudi Arabia last week...