Word: boner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europe's leftist press-and by many other papers. U.S. newsmen in Paris became curious. A quick check showed that some overeager beaver in Moscow had committed a prize boner. The map in question was entitled: "War Map III, featuring the Pacific Theater." It covered Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia. It was published in December 1944, as an ad for Esso; it was the third in a series designed to help the U.S. public follow the progress of World War II (earlier maps had covered the European and African theaters...
...convention, Pennsylvania had made a celebrated boner by waiting too long to hop on the Willkie bandwagon, and then having to chase it down the road. Jim Duff was not going to make that mistake this time. Political dopesters in Harrisburg heard that arrangements had been made for Alabama to yield to Pennsylvania on the critical ballot. Jim Duff might be the man to swing the convention...
...expect that a boner like that could get by TIME'S 44 editorial researchers, 32 contributing editors, 12 associate editors and 9 senior editors, just to mention a few. How about getting a good world atlas for the National Affairs Department? FRED R. SALCER The Bronx...
...attempt to blame high prices on the Republicans, to insist that the G.O.P. had sent them sky-high by scuttling OPA. And here was the President, head of the Democratic Party, damning all controls as tools of dictatorship. It might well turn out to be the political boner of the year...
Mistake. In a few months Zhdanov turned his distrust in another direction. As boss of Leningrad, he was acutely conscious of a danger he saw from nearby Finland. His fear led him into the one great boner of his career: he persuaded Stalin that the Finns would collapse easily. After the courageous Finnish defense ended that delusion, Stalin made a somber crack to Zhdanov: "So things are going normally on the Finnish front, huh? Well, when the Finns get to Bologoe [halfway between Moscow and Leningrad], let me know...