Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overruled. But the U.S., failing to press home its advantages, made error upon critical error, according to the witnesses. The day Chinese "volunteers" swarmed across the Yalu, testified General Mark Clark, "we should have indicated that we were at war with Red China." Attacking Manchurian bases, however, might have triggered a world war. "It might have," said Clark, with Joy concurring. "I do not think it would have...I do not think you can drag the Soviets into a world war except at a time and place of their own choosing. They have been doiqg^too well in the cold...
Faced with these two problems, the girls on Tuesday did penance before the college administration, admitting their error and asking to be relieved of the whole mess. And the officials, perhaps remembering their own freshman year, recognized the problem and agreed to handle any troublesome calls themselves...
...Army Engineers had nothing to do with the plant location. Said Major General Bernard L. Robinson, Acting Chief of Engineers: "I categorically deny that the Corps of Engineers inspected 16 sites or that we had anything to do with the selection of the site." Strauss blamed his error on "a slip of the tongue," admitted that only engineers retained by Dixon-Yates had made the recommendations...
...vigor of the debate began to tell on Adenauer. Late on the second day, when he returned to the fray, his 78 years weighed heavily. He based an attack on Ollenhauer on a statement that the latter had not made, and when the error was pointed out, would not retreat. Socialists hooted and yelled; in the confusion, the Chancellor lost the thread of his discourse. He bumbled, contradicted himself and flubbed questions that were thrown at him. When he sat down, Socialist Carlo Schmidt, who led the opposition assault, crowed to a colleague: "I think I won by a technical...
WOULD APPRECIATE CORRECTION OF AN ERROR IN DEC. 6 ISSUE, WHICH STATED: "EVEN ON THE DAY LAST WEEK WHEN THE DOW-JONES AVERAGE ROSE THE MOST, ALMOST HALF OF THE 1,271 STOCKS TRADED SHOWED LOSSES, AND A FEW, E.G., BELL AIRCRAFT . . . REGISTERED LOWS FOR THE YEAR." YOU MISSED THE FACT THAT BELL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION SPLIT ITS STOCK TWO-FOR-ONE ON NOV. 3, AND THE LOW FOR THE YEAR, ADJUSTED FOR THE STOCK...