Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the good government he has brought to New York, his Republican foes fumed in frustration. They insistently pointed out that Governor Harriman drastically underestimated state revenue for 1955, and loaded the taxpayers with an 11% increase in state income taxes to cover a budget based on his error. But there was remarkably little public reaction. One reason: a point about a state budget often gets lost in a maze of statistics, analyses and charts. Last week, however, Oswald D. (for David) Heck, speaker of the New York state assembly, found a way to make the case in a word...
Haruspices, the reporters soon found out, were diviners, usually Etruscans, who deduced the will of the gods and foretold the future chiefly by examining the entrails of sacrificed animals, from birds to bulls. With a word, Speaker Heck had at last aroused public interest in the $127 million error of Haruspex Harriman...
...Somehow or other, many in our American business community are not sufficiently alert to the danger of world Communism," he said. Their most serious error, in his view, is that they believe that Communists at home are the main Communist threat. "Since these businessmen don't see Moscow as the mainspring of the Communist menace to American progress and prosperity, and to world peace and human liberty everywhere, they turn to appeasing the Soviet rulers...
...large city even if it exploded well outside the city's limits, and its radioactive fallout would have a killing effect a long way downwind. So the ICBM, besides being fairly small, might be fairly inaccurate and still do its job. For it, a C.E.P. (circular error of probability) of five miles would be good enough. And the cataclysmic effect of the great warhead made almost any cost of the missile well worth spending...
...Trial & Error. In Launceston. Australia, sentenced to two years' imprisonment for fabrication of divorce evidence, Maxwell Edward Aylett, 33, bookmaker and sometime law student, announced that he had decided to forsake his legal studies, commented: "I have not any liking for criminal courts...