Word: boner
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...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 Someone in the Food Ministry recognized the boner, and last week the advice was withdrawn.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...
...parents is padres. In Spanish, as in many other things, you can't depend on appearances . . . Sometimes the results are appalling. Think of the American girl who wanted to say in Spanish that she was embarrassed, for example, and used the word embarazada, which means "pregnant." Your boner at least "hit the hammer with the nail...
...voting blank asking SHALL WE SACK THE SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called the Shmoos 'the greatest satire since Swift's Gulliver's Travels...