Word: boner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Generals & Sinners. In August 1939, Pundit Kaltenborn confesses, he made a prize boner. Asked if he thought war would come soon, he said in clipped, confident tones: "The odds are still seven to five in favor of more appeasement." Two days later, "Hitler's blitzkrieg roared across the Polish frontier...
...President himself pulled a prize boner but apologized publicly for the letter he wrote criticizing...
Harvey's retorted, dead pan, that the change in the well-known name might cut down sales in dollar countries. Someone in the Food Ministry recognized the boner, and last week the advice was withdrawn. Said a contrite Ministry spokesman: "Nobody but an imbecile would connect sherry with the product...
...leadership which was often more important than numbers and weapons. Crisper, more critical, less reverent of big names than Freeman, Williams shows Lee and Jackson as the great leaders they were, but quite capable of errors in command (e.g., Lee's slips at Gettysburg, Jackson's boner at Port Republic) which most of their admirers have glossed over. With Grant only an offstage noise in these first volumes, Williams' real heroes are the shrewd and patient Lincoln, efficient Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and the fighting soldiers of the Union army. Williams winds up his critique...