Word: boner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief regrets now are for the lost opportunities to fill out presidential foursomes at bridge and golf. On a campaign trip in 1952, Candidate Eisenhower invited Darby to play a rubber of bridge, but Darby pretended that he did not play. "I was certain I'd pull some boner that would forever mark me in Ike's book as a man not to be trusted," he says. Last year, during Ike's last Denver vacation, the chance came to play golf with the President. "I had to decline," Darby explains ruefully, "because it just happened that...
...letters poured in, the Times quickly conceded that its critic had followed the program notes more closely than the music, published Bailey's contrite apology blaming his boner on "confusion of mind and lapse of memory...
...these siren songs, Walt lent half an ear. Encouraged by Leopold Stokowski and Deems Taylor, he made the biggest boner of his career: Fantasia. Its basic idea, to illustrate music with pictures, was depressing enough to anyone who loves either form of art. Its declared intention to bring "culture" to the "masses" turned out to be silly: it had nothing to do with culture, and the "masses" would have nothing to do with it. Fantasia has never earned back what it cost. Worse yet, though Walt learned a lesson from Fantasia, he learned the wrong one: mistaking for culture what...
McCarthy are now even, we think, in an unfortunate conflict. The President has pulled the prize boner of going out of his way to congratulate Sen. Arthur V. Watkins for the hatchet job Watkins' committee did on McCarthy. Sen. Mc Carthy in turn has pulled the boner of questioning, by inference, the President's enmity to Communism. Now that these two eminent fighting cocks have given each other their lumps in public, how about a reconciliation, followed by a joint and sustained effort to unify their party? Neither Eisenhower nor McCarthy may believe this in the heat...
TIME [Aug. 23] is guilty of a powerful boner when it reports that the St. Lawrence power project, when completed in 1959, "will generate more power than TVA." The 12.6 billion kilowatt-hours per year estimated for the St. Lawrence project compares with over 16.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power produced by TVA hydro plants in fiscal year 1950, TVA's peak year of hydro generation...