Word: boner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classic precedent was the case of California Center Roy Reigels, who ran 65 yds. the wrong way in the 1929 Rose Bowl game, a boner that cost the game. Reigels went on to captain his team the next season and became an All-America, later found that his lefthanded fame helped his business career. Reigels' advice to Lewis last week: "Laugh with 'em. That's all you've got to do ... It's just a football game...
...Where, in a famed sonnet and famed historical boner, Poet John Keats got him confused with the conqueror of Mexico, and gave "stout Cortes" the credit for discovering the Pacific...
...first news that U.S. occupation authorities had of their boner was an indignant telegram from a German official: "WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" Quite by chance, the German had picked up a new history textbook sponsored and financed by the High Commissioner's Office for use in the schools. It had taken little more than a glance to see that the $47,600 Synchronoptische Weltgeschichte (translated Synchronoptic World History) was shot through with Communist propaganda...
...wrote a book in 1948 advocating the overthrow of the Indonesian government on the ground that it did not represent the people. President Soekarno's government has been rounding up copies of the book. It is waiting for the ambassador to make just one more boner before asking Uncle Mao to recall Uncle Barhen...
Washington newsmen pretty well know how Pearson, a useful tool in the throat-cutting that is always going on in Washington, got the messages. They apparently came from someone in the Pentagon with the knife out for MacArthur. But in printing classified material, Pearson had pulled a journalistic bonerif the Army wanted to be tough about...