Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freedom for herself alone ... As to other religions, the Church will . . . require that by legitimate means they shall not be allowed to propa gate false doctrine. Consequently, in a state where the majority of the people are Catholic, the Church will require that legal existence be denied to error . . . The Church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance, as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice...
Later, some of the accusers confessed that they had sinned. Wrote the Rev. John Hale, who had been a witness against one of the witches: "We walked in clouds and could not see our way. And we have most cause to be humble for error . . . which cannot be retrieved." And indeed it could not be retrieved, for before the nine months' hysteria spent itself 20 innocent men & women had been executed in Salem...
Divorced. Otto L. (for Ludwig) Preminger, 42, Vienna-born Broadway actor-director (Margin for Error, 1939) and Hollywood producer (Laura); by Marion Mill Preminger, 39, onetime Hungarian actress; after 18 years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...they can do nothing about it: "The Soviet version of the moment is the worst, because the affliction is nationwide. I wish I had some assurance the malady were transitory...We cannot condone the Soviet infringement," he concluded, but "perhaps in some way we can help them discover the error and ultimate futility of their policy...
...succumb to some of the faults of their literary elders. They do not force the complexities of life into a tight Freudian or Marxian formula, nor mutter Hemingway-hexed monosyllables through the corners of their mouths. And they do not mangle the language as did those who made the error of confusing themselves with James Joyce...