Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to challenge the Harvard Medical School to convene a medical jury to undertake an investigation of this detox process case," Humes says, adding that the medical and legal professions in the U.S. find themselves in the midst of a 40-year-old "blunder" on the issue of recognizing cannabis as a legitimate medicine. Buttressing his contentions, Humes cites the 1893 Indian Hemp Commission Report published in Victorian Britain, that attests to the usefulness of cannabis in treating ailments ranging from menstrual cramps to migraine headaches...
...Nielsen Index figures for TV viewing, Americans will have watched 18,000 TV murders by age 18-v. having spent only 11,000 hours in school. In response to pressure from parents and Congress, the networks now seem to be trying to tone down the thud and blunder...
...voice speaking a different tongue into the lips of the original actors, besides being aesthetically offensive, robs the viewer of the genuine performance. But Chabrol unaccountably elected to ignore this long-accepted truism, perhaps as part of a misguided effort to accommodate the English-speaking Steiger. Combine this blunder with the normally sluggish quality of a Chabrol screenplay, and you come up with a film virtually stripped of a crucial dimension--the dialogue and how it is delivered...
...failed to detect Lance's flaws, or denying that the appointment was a mistake, would do him no good and could damage him further. But if Carter were to assume full responsibility, and if he were to admit that his "Bert, I'm proud of you" statement was a blunder, he could conceivably salvage something from the affair after...
...Blooper. Lawyers say that defendant-attorneys typically get too close to their cases and blunder by letting slip information that leads to trouble. Trying to shake an eyewitness's identification of him, one Chicago robbery defendant posed a disastrous question: "How can you be sure? Isn't it true that when I robbed your store I was wearing a ski mask...