Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson added a pair in the second when Bill Chauncey was safe on a dropped third strike. Walt Greeley sacrificed and reached first on an error, and Dick Clasby singled to score Chauncey. Russ Johnson walked to force in Greeley, and Audet was relieved by Jim Hebert...
...parallel to Pentagon red tape was the drill for loading, firing and reloading a musket in the British army in the 17th century. The drill was designed to eliminate individual error and to achieve uniform rate of fire. Its 31 orders, as recorded by Robert Graves in Sergeant Lamb's America: "March with your rest in your hand! March, and with your musket carry your rest! Unshoulder your musket! Poise your musket! Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming...
...mistakes, some of them thumping big ones. He misread Tito, lost the airlift battle of Berlin, mis judged U.S. reaction to the invasion of South Korea. Above all, he and his "fellow Politburocrats allowed the nakedness of Communist aggression to alert the West to rearm. To undo that "error" is now the principal external target of Russia's peace offensive...
Toward the end of his first round, Ben ran into all sorts of trouble; he was in the water on No. 15, in bunkers on Nos. 17 and 18. Each error cost him a stroke, yet he wound up with a sub-par 70 in a tie for third place-one stroke up on Snead, three on Boros, four on Mangrum. A second-round 69 put Hogan in the lead...
...Jeffs added single runs in the next three innings. A walk to Eames, a sacrifice, and Martin's clean single gave them their fourth score. In the third inning, another error by Krinsky, a bunt single, and Dehlendorf's long fly brought home...