Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picking scripts: "They must hold my interest." His second, almost unvarying one: "There must be a movie in them." Hollywood insurance has more than once compensated him for Broadway injuries. But partly because it was adapted from a show whose movie rights had been sold, Cullman made his worst blunder, turned down Oklahoma...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, acting as leader of Britain's Conservative Party, made a blunder. Irked by the Tory defeat at Skipton (TIME, Jan. 24), he took a strong stand against Independent Bruce Dutton Briant, who had dared to oppose a Conservative Coalitionist in a Parliamentary by-election at Brighton. Said Churchill in a letter to Brighton voters: Briant's claim of supporting the Prime Minister, while running as an Independent, was a "swindle." Resentful Brightonians did not elect Briant, a local barrister, but they did give him enough votes to give the Conservatives a scare...
Ever since fat Francisco Franco stupidly congratulated the Japanese puppet government in the Philippines on its inauguration, Washington has buzzed with rumors that the U.S. State Department had moved swiftly to take advantage of this diplomatic blunder. Last week American Aviation Daily flatly stated that the U.S. had won landing rights for U.S. commercial airplanes in Spain. The State Department, presumably because of still pending negotiations (which might involve the release of Italian ships in Spanish harbors), remained...
...Army might be partially forgiven a mis take during the frenzied months after Pearl Harbor. But what the Committee could not condone, nor ask the U.S. to dismiss lightly, was the stubborn brass-hattery which had refused, time & time again, to correct, or even to admit the original blunder. The Army had been amply warned...
...many ways the President's "supreme blunder," argued Professor Bailey, was in "forcing the full text of the League Covenant into the Treaty, for Article X of the Covenant (mutual protection against aggression) was the rock upon which ratification finally foundered." Had Wilson been content with a brief statement committing the signatories of the Treaty to the general principles of the League, Historian Bailey thinks that a Covenant drawn up after the 1920 elections might well have been approved by the Senate...