Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceased to marvel at the difference in temperament between him and the grim, patient, secretive Joseph Stalin. To some nervous Western leaders, Nikita's engaging expansiveness even seemed to make him the more dangerous foe. Yet last week impulsive Nikita Khrushchev made precisely the same kind of crucial error in judgment that dogged the career of Stalin...
...fourth singles, Fred Vinton turned in a very strong performance in downing Yale's stubborn John Oettinger, 15-6, 15-8, 12-15, 15-9. Vinton rarely made an error, letting his opponent do most of the missing...
...here Emmet rallied again, and with the gallery holding its breath at every stroke, he won seven straight points to even the match, refusing to make the single error which would have given Howe the victory...
...best-of-five deuce only to tin a routine drive. On the final point of the match, Howe dropped a perfect lob serve in Emmet's backhand court, which the Crimson player could not effectively return. Howe's follow-up drive down the wall extracted the final error and ended the match...
Rocky Ground. For each work he spends months in research, more months in building up a mathematically scaled clay model, still more months at the easel or on the scaffold. A minute error can be heartbreaking. In a recent scale model, Benton had painted a birchbark canoe being set on the ground by a group of Indians. "People looking at it would ask right off what kind of damn fool Indians would be dragging a birchbark canoe across rocky ground. That changed the mural's entire design and set me back weeks. I had to do the model...