Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However ignominious was former Premier Nikolai Bulganin's performance in publicly confessing error at last month's Central Committee meeting in Moscow, it was not groveling enough to satisfy his sometime globetrotting pal, Nikita Khrushchev. Unprecedentedly, Moscow last week published a stenographic report of the December session at which Bulganin demeaned himself...
Suddenly Goddard had a kind of fame. Newspapers featured him, and the New York Times chastised him for the error (it is no error) of believing that a rocket engine can work above the atmosphere without "something better than a vacuum to react against." Goddard, a sensitive man, was appalled by this notoriety...
...overall aim was good. U.S.'s Pioneer III deviated from its planned course by 3.5°. If it had reached the moon's orbit, it would have missed the moon by about 14,590 miles. The Russian miss (4,660 miles) was an error of only slightly more than...
...third contention, that one candidate's name was badly mispelled, is also true, but the candidate in question did not object seriously to this error when a new election was offered by the Council...
Second, the candidate whose name was misspelled on the ballot told the Student Council secretary that he was not disturbed about the error, as long as it was rectified in the election for Permanent Class Committee...