Word: missteps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dumbo, on Condor. Nothing like that happened last week. As scientists and spectators, including Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah and Congressman Craig Hosmer of California, watched from a shelter two miles away, Kiwi strutted its stuff without a misstep...
...Observer; "Organization man," said the News Chronicle; "Very spirit of togetherness," sneered the London Daily Mirror; "Mechanical smile," said the Daily Herald; "Superb political gamesmanship," said the Manchester Guardian. In one of the odd situations of modern diplomacy, Nixon was personally on trial and double-dared to make a misstep...
...Summed up the New York Times's London Correspondent Drew Middleton: "Nixon arrived billed as an uncouth adventurer in the political jungles, departed trailing clouds of statesmanship and esteem. In four days here filled with opportunities for the most horrendous mistakes, the Vice President did not make a misstep...
...leaped in swiftly in Algiers to guide events their way, but if they could impel events they could not with certainty control them. France settled down to an uneasy testing time of men in action and in reaction. Men eager to exploit the situation were fearful that a misstep might bring to power those they opposed, or a continuing irresolution might bring on what no true Frenchman wanted, the trials of a civil...
Outwardly, Egypt's Nasser and his countrymen acted as though they did not believe their antagonists' threats. In their hearts, however, they could not be sure that one misstep, one clumsy, maneuver, even one ship accident in the Suez ("Remember the Maine!") would not bring on the guns of Britain and France...