Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left off the new roster of Washington's Burning Tree golf club until red-faced officials discovered the printer's error and hurriedly had another roster printed...
...particularly fond of cherries. When he discovered one day that the sparrows were eating his cherries, he decreed that all sparrows must be killed or driven away. But with the birds gone, the beetles abounded. They overran the orchards and devoured the crops. The Emperor, rueful of his error, ordered the sparrows back...
...Tactical Error. In Belleville, Ill., at a reception fostering better relations between Scott Air Force Base and the community, someone lifted the stars from Major General Edward Underbill's overcoat...
...request to be relieved." There was a reason for Malenkov's whimper: the regime could not afford a bang. To have trumpeted out a brazen declaration of his disloyalty to the creed at this moment might have jarred things too much; but to have left without admitting some error-even if only inefficiency-would have left Georgy Malenkov unreprimanded, in too strong a position. So came his odd confession and the clumsy charade that followed: 1,300 hands raised unquestioningly to accept their premier's resignation...
Last week Ike fired off a new letter to CAB. reversing himself and giving back Northwest its Honolulu run for three more years, in competition with Pan American. At his press conference, Ike said bluntly that he had "made an error." Said Minnesota's Thye: "As soon as he got the facts, he changed his decision...