Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uneasily), he won the confidence and respect of both sides without ever favoring either. When the accuracy of an exclusive Stark story about coal bargaining was questioned two years ago, Illinois' Paul Douglas said on the Senate floor: "I have never known Lou Stark to make a factual error in a story." The facts later proved Stark's story true...
...Suppression of the 1947 Wedemeyer Report (advocating support for the Chinese Nationalists, a U.N. trusteeship to keep Manchuria out of Communist control) was a "tragic error"-particularly the section predicting an attack in Korea...
...sirs, your error is almost as bad as making tea without warming the pot first, or expecting the beer here to be cold...
...same token, Protestants will "realize that it was precisely the Papal power at its fullest development which gathered the world into the dominion of Christ; . . . that without Papal infallibility in matters of faith and morals, the divine revelation would be forever at the mercy of human error and extravagance; that the inner kernel of Papal power . . . is nothing but service of the Church, nothing but a perpetual washing of the feet of the disciples...
Opening the Tuesday evening session, John Crows Ransom, editor of the Kenyon Review and visiting Summer School professor, discussed the relationship of the works of Matthew Arnold to recent work in criticism. Ransom stressed the error of destroying poetry in attempting to reduce it by analysis into its prose equivalent...