Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Lamplighter. Lausche broke his first rule at birth: he committed the political error-in Ohio, which tends almost exclusively toward such oldstock political names as Harrison and Taft-of being the son of Slovenian immigrants. While a boy in Cleveland, Lausche worked as a street-lamplighter for two dollars a week. His father, a steelworker, died when Frank was 14 and, as the second of ten children, Lausche took on much of the responsibility for supporting the family. He helped his mother run a small cafe, and he also found time to become a star third baseman...
...must give the court an opportunity to reverse its opinion on segregation. I have great respect for our Supreme Court, but this is not the first time that this learned body has been in error, nor would it be its first time to reverse a decision...
Though less dramatic than the confession (of incompetence) which announced Georgy Malenkov's fall from Premier last February, Molotov's error was the more heinous for being ideological. At that same time Molotov had said: "Side by side with the Soviet Union, where the foundation of a Socialist society has already been built, there are people's democratic countries which have so far taken only the first, though very important, step towards Socialism." Molotov's error lay in the use of one word: foundation. Said he in his confession: "This mistaken for mulation leads...
When the American Legion this week condemned UNESCO for propagating "adherence to a nebulous world government," the Legion was falling into an error common to many critics of the United Nations and its agencies. As a league of sovereign nations, the U.N. is hardly a world government. True world government--as its proponents readily admit--is a long way off, almost as far away now as it was in the late 1930's when the movement began in this country...
...Fathered he is, yet he's fatherless." This is an obvious printer's error and should read...