Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to roll at 7:30, the one man authorized to order it out could not be found. He, in turn, was hunting for the one doctor qualified to say that it was set to go. That cost 33 precious minutes. Said Dr. James Schofield: "We made a basic error trying to spare people's feelings. There's got to be just one boss...
After presenting Tufts with a gift run in the first on a two-base error, the varsity countered without the benefit of a hit. Lead-off man Dick Hoffman, who has been on base at least three times every game, opened the Crimson half of the first with a walk. He advanced to second on an infield out, and scored on a wild pitch...
...decision. He gives the word to push the red button. Machines take over. A cam closes a switch and power is fed to cameras, test instruments and power plants. Red and green lights on the control panel trace the action from sequence to sequence. Nothing is left to human error. Even the voice that intones the final count over the loudspeakers on Yucca Flat has been recorded on a tape that cannot blow its lines from human emotion. Electric current travels a full 15 minutes through a maze of relays, switches, condensers, coils, filaments and generators. There are safety checks...
...life than Agustín Martínez. For months he would pan the sandy river bottoms; finding a few diamonds, he would load his canoe with rum and float downriver, happily strumming the cuatro, his four-stringed guitar. Then some missionaries showed Agustín the error of his ways. "I put the cuatro and the rum in a sack and threw them into the Caroni River," he reported...
...started off well, tallying one run in both the first and third innings, before the Crimson had managed even one hit. Both runs came after a base on balls, the first on an error and the second after two singles. Ward then held the Terriers to two base hits in six innings, to insure his first triumph of the young season...