Word: botch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Even so, in the stunned weeks after Sept. 11, there was a powerful impulse to simply rebuild the towers, all 110 stories, to show that Americans could not be brought low by terrorists. Then people remembered that however much we love them in retrospect, the Twin Towers were a botch. At their completion in 1973, they were already anachronisms, products of an imperial Modernism that destroyed human-scale neighborhoods and in their place erected mammoth towers on desolate plazas...
...past year, he has been feeling uncharacteristic pangs of regret about the island's wrecked economy and what it will say about his legacy as a 20th century populist icon. As a result, they say, Castro is finally, genuinely behind the anti-embargo push and doesn't want to botch it. "He knows this is the wave to be on now," says a high-ranking Cuban official...
...long shot, but what does McVeigh have to lose? If his motion is denied, and he is executed, well, he was already prepared to die; he dropped earlier appeals to hasten the event. If he prevails, he could become a constant, life-sentenced reminder that the FBI managed to botch its biggest case ever. Nothing could please the self-styled enemy of government more than that...
...role as kicking specialist, going 3-for-8 on field goals and missing two potential game-winners in Ivy contests. Toward the end of the season, Harvard Coach Tim Murphy had lost confidence in his kicking game and decided to go to a "four down" offense rather than botch further field goal attempts...
...have switched places again (the party of Lincoln lost the Florida black vote this year by something like a 9-to-1 margin) and some new election-by-brain-implant comes under dispute, it might seem perfectly natural to let politicians do the refereeing when the judges and lawyers botch the job. Al Gore and the Democrats may feel angry and cheated by the political/philosophical divisions of a Court they complained about all through the campaign. But revenge is only four years away...