Word: gaffes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...syndicated column yesterday, Ruth Montgomery of the Hearst papers said, "When Jackie began clamoring to visit India, the President wrote Galbraith to arrange things, but from the day of her arrival in India the 'Prof' has been pulling one gaff after another...
...trumped-up cover story that the U-2 was merely on a weather-scouting flight. He did not tell his press officers the real truth until after Nikita Khrushchev announced that Pilot Francis Powers had been taken alive. Caught mouthing a useless lie, State was roundly scored for the gaff...
...Navy harbors little doubt about the ability of Polaris crews to stand the gaff. The ten officers and 90 enlisted men on each ship are all products of a probing, prying selection system modeled after the officer-procurement methods set up by the uncompromising perfectionist who is the most influential man in the U.S. nuclear Navy: Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover...
...those who stood the gaff, perhaps the most rewarding appraisal came on the editorial page under the byline of a Washington monument: Arthur Krock. With tongue tucked tightly in cheek, Krock made it plain that he, like an old friend and news source named Harry Truman, thinks presidential primaries are so much eyewash...