Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be able to record just how close his skipper was keeping to his estimates. If all went well, if navigational skill was equal to predicted-log equations, every boat would churn past the finish line at Block Island at exactly 7 p.m. The time-measured margin of error (including the error at each control point) would determine the winner...
...American command who obviously are not interested in the prevention of this sort of incident." Molotov then told Dulles that Russia would pay half the cost of the damaged plane, claiming that the Neptune was on the Russian side of the border but that "atmospheric conditions made possible an error." Responded John Foster Dulles: "It is gratifying that he expressed regret and at least indicated willingness to make some reparations, but . . . the offer as a whole fell far short of what has been requested." Dulles said that he would take it up with the President in Washington...
...cowboy, the most durable and popular figure on the U.S. screen, has until recent years generally been dismissed by critics and film historians as an error of popular taste. But in French critical circles, the cowboy has long been regarded with deep solemnity. Many a longhaired Frenchman believes that the western film is Hollywood's finest achievement, a kind of national folklore in the making. In a flood of recently published books and articles, Europe's highbrow critics have been soberly examining the western and discovering in it virtues and complexities which even its most loyal fans never...
...inning Third Baseman Tumulty came to bat, a pinch runner was ready to do his legwork for him, but hurly-burly "T.J." hit only a short dribbler, was thrown out at first.* Helped by such feeble batting as Tumulty's. Roosevelt's strikeout, and five Democratic errors, the G.O.P., making only one error, forged ahead, crushed the Democrats in five innings, 1-2-4. It was the first Republican victory in the history of the congressional event...
...Russians changed their minds about her again? As in Tito's case, her fall from grace had all been a mis take, the Russians had explained, perpetrated by Soviet Police Chief Lavrenty Beria. Now that Beria was executed, the Russians were correcting their error. When a reporter asked if she feared being arrested again, she replied confidently: "From the amount of scandal it caused through the rest of the world, I don't think they will do that again." Was she angry about the arrest? Oh no, she answered. "Injustices occur everywhere." If the State Department grants...