Word: blunders
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First critic was Frank R. Kent, seasoned political commentator of the Baltimore Sun. Said he: "In its essence, this Roosevelt view of criticism means it is better to make a blunder than to do nothing. It bars pointing out the danger of going in one direction unless you suggest going in another...
Thus ends the first stage of what will come day be recorded as the biggest administrative blunder of our post was decade and the most conspicuous example of what political muckraking can do when it gets started...
...their livelier cousins, the St. Quentyns. Alastair Chappell, the last of his line, was a little too sensitive for his own comfort. When he rebelled against the more brutal traditions of the regiment it looked as if he would never make a soldier. Alastair made an almost unforgivable blunder when he turned down the chance of marrying his colonel's daughter and fell in love with his cousin, Katherine St. Quentyn. Worse, he took advantage of Katherine's pity to spoil her good name. Luckily the Crimean War had begun or the St. Quentyns would have certainly called...
...Downright Judicial Blunder!" screamed a bulletin from the Nazi Party official news bureau. "We demand a fundamental reform of our judicial system. To avert another such decision German Justice must be purged of outworn, alien and liberal conceptions...
TIME (issue of Dec. 5, p. 21), probably sensing the bias that the press blunder anent nudism and cancer might cause, sought to regain the intellectual status quo by publishing the "Health Wedding'' story together with an enlightening, timely, two-column cut. In doing so, TIME scooped all conservative magazines...