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Despite his conspicuous field talents, Friesell's real fame can be traced to a colossal boner. In the waning seconds of last year's Cornell-Dartmouth game (two weeks before he quit college refereeing to work pro games exclusively), Friesell allowed Cornell five downs, the last of which produced a touchdown that won the game, 7-10-3. Referees have made that mistake before. But the Cornell-Dartmouth game was crucial: Cornell had been undefeated in 18 games, was on the next-to-the-last lap of its second successive undefeated season...
...Results. Not all Rockefeller projects have come to happy fruition. Worst boner was the launching of a $500,000 advertising campaign in Latin-American newspapers to persuade tourists to visit the U.S. The newspapers were carelessly chosen. Fat advertisements went to Axis-sympathizing papers while U.S. sympathizer like Buenos Aires' Critica and Rio de Janeiro's Vangnarda were neglected. Worst of all, in view of the high rate of dollar exchange, asking Latin Americans to tour the U.S. was a horrid joke...
Good lord, what a boner for TIME ! In the March 3 issue you say: "Franklin Roosevelt worked last week, like a sailor polishing brass, whistling as he worked." Franklin Roosevelt is a good sailor and no sailor whistles while he works. "Only fools and bos'n's mates whistle in the Navy...
Almost legendary among U. S. political mistakes is the famed 1916 boner pulled by Candidate Charles Evans Hughes: in California he forgot to shake the hand of Hiram Johnson, thus lost Johnson, California, and the election. Candidate Wendell Willkie took no chances on his California tour (TIME, Sept. 30). Overlooking Senator Johnson's entrenched conservatism. his utter isolationism, Candidate Willkie praised the Senator where he thought it would do the most good-in California...
...surprised as anyone in the park when I saw it in my hand," wailed Ump Wilson, trying to explain his unprecedented behavior. "It was the worst boner I ever pulled...