Word: blunders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Wally Wanted. Beaverbrook is at his sprightly and informative best when he sticks to a straight narrative of the events that eventually led to the abdication. He felt, as did most other insiders, that Edward made his greatest strategic blunder when he stated in November that unless Baldwin and his government approved a morganatic marriage with Mrs. Simpson, he would not go through with his coronation in May. Both Beaverbrook and Winston Churchill advised him to put aside his marriage plans until after the coronation, and then press his demands with the power of the throne behind him. Edward...
...room, Alford moved the false news. At 4:33, A.P. sent a bulletin to its 8,500 members reporting that Meredith was dead-and 21 minutes later a fuller paragraph went out, repeating that Meredith had been killed from ambush. For a little more than half an hour the blunder stood. Finally Alford asked an Appeal staffer: "You do have Meredith dead, don't you?" And at 5:08, A.P. got off the overdue correction bulletin...
...also described the buildings as too large for their surroundings, a "visual blunder" that she predicted Harvard would regret...
Plainly, neither China nor North Viet Nam reckoned on full-scale U.S. intervention in Viet Nam. Their blunder came as no surprise to Westmoreland. "They look out upon the world through very small windows," he says. "Their view of the rest of the world, and of America in particular, is what they want...
...never won a race at all. August Belmont gave his name to a famous race track (New York's Belmont Park), but he is better remembered as the fellow who bred Man o' War-and sold him as a yearling for $5,000. Aghast at his blunder, Belmont tried to reproduce the champion that got away. He mated Mahubah to Fair Play all over again and was rewarded with My Play, who won only nine minor races in four years...