Word: blunders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign on the Bible as servative, as well as educated. Unlike in the last century, British evangelism has become purely a middle class, es- an authority. Protestant liberalism, he claims, is dying out, and those now drawn to the Church are religiously con-pecially since Billy Graham made the blunder of alienating English workers by inveighing against socialism in one of his visits...
...takes it. At the next regimental rout he defiantly leads a drunken reel. The colonel throws a tantrum, disgracing him self before his officers and the battalion before its guests. But the triumph and the whisky go to Jock's head, and he makes an even more costly blunder than the colonel's: he "bashes" a corporal (John Eraser) for walking out with his daughter (Susannah York). A court-martial is indicated. The colonel generously refuses to order it. To his amazement, the battalion interprets his generosity as weakness, and old Jock cannily abets the error. The train...
...Dallas County stayed as Republican as ever-Nixon got 149,333 votes, 23,972 more than Ike's 1956 mark-but in the central and east Texas rural areas and in some of the smaller Texas cities, the Democratic ticket picked up steadily, and Bruce Alger's blunder made a big difference. One top Nixon adviser insists that it even helped lose South Carolina, where voters resented the unchivalrous attitude toward Lady Bird...
Evasion & Frustration. The board came into being when 13 Teamster insurgents, charging that Hoffa's election had been rigged, sued in 1957 to prevent him from taking over the presidency. Hoffa made a deal that most Hoffa haters thought was a fatal blunder: if he could move in as "provisional" president, he would permit a board of monitors to oversee Teamster affairs. The resulting consent decree called for the board to consist of one insurgent-appointed monitor, one Teamster-appointed monitor, and a chairman to be named by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts. Ever since, Jimmy Hoffa...
...after opposing him for Terms II and III, came out for Kennedy in a limp and stodgy statement: "In the field of foreign policy . . . despite their sharp dispute over Quemoy and Matsu, the two candidates are in substantial agreement . . . But Senator Kennedy's approach . . . except for his momentary blunder suggesting intervention in Cuba . . . seems to us to be more reasoned, less emotional, more flexible, less doctrinaire, more imaginative, less negative." On domestic policy a Democratic President will have greater influence over an almost certainly Democratic Congress. "We believe that with the prestige of an election victory, Mr. Kennedy could...