Word: botching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Germany's Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel is also said to have opposed the Pindus push, recommended instead a sudden naval encirclement with multiple landing parties, such as Germany sprang on Norway. Being obliged to cons jit Keitel last month, to be told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal swallow hard. Last week he retired "at his own request" from the service of a Duce whom he once offered to crush as an upstart...
...prominent alumnus and former Lampoon editor yesterday expressed the general feeling of pity for the former cream of the college comics when he said, "It's too damn bad Lampy had to make such a botch of its first attempt to be socially conscious. The boys are young and inexperienced and should have known better than to try to compete with the Progressive...