Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secondly, the statement in this article that I opposed the idea of a House-centered weekend is completely in error. I did, in fact, abstain from any vote which may have been taken in regard to the proposed weekend. It would seem that the distinction between abstention and opposition need not be clarified. Gerald A. Lewis, Chairman Dunster House Dance Committee
...which is hurled hundreds of miles into the stratosphere to fall on its target. An IBM could super-whoosh along at 4,000 to 5,000 miles an hour and cross the Atlantic in as little as 30 or 40 minutes. Automatic navigation on the stars should keep the error at target within eight miles, a near miss with an atomic warhead...
...difficulty. The California Senator argues that co-existence is only a "Trojan Horse" which the Soviets will use as a stall until they can achieve an atomic stalemate "sometime between 1957 and '60." After that Russia "will seek to take over the peripheral nations bite by bite." The major error in his reasoning is the idea that a weapons stalemate will not occur for a number of years. Not only is it impossible to make an accurate count of armaments, but in an era of atomic platitude a slight advantage in weapons provides a nation scant protection against destruction...
Utah's Watkins patiently explained that the proposed changes were typographical, with one brief deletion of an obvious error. Replied McCarthy: "I have found so many obvious errors that I should like to know which one the Senator is deleting." When Watkins tossed a copy of the corrected report on McCarthy's desk, McCarthy whined that he now had to go through 72 pages. "The Senator from Utah has told me that he knows what these errors are," he complained. "Why does he not mark them for me?" South Dakota's mild-mannered Republican Senator Francis Case...
...million for a tract of Government-owned oil lands off the Louisiana coast and then discovered that it had made a mistake in the tract numbers (TIME, Nov. 8, 1954), will not be held to its contract. The Government has accepted the argument that a bid containing an obvious error does not constitute a binding contract, will give the company back its $2,900,000 deposit...