Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fall, a Chinese national from Singapore ran into such difficulty. As a displaced Nationalist, he was traveling from Singapore on an English certificate of identity. By error, he was landed in Boston, rather than New York, and here immigration officials discovered that his travel document was good for only five months and six days after landing--24 days short of the required six months...
...from the last-minute rush and changes in the foundation's plans. Originally it was proposed to vaccinate only second-graders and use first-and third-graders as "controls." But there might be big differences between the rates, even in these adjacent age groups, and other sources of error. So in eleven states, half the youngsters in the three grades will get the vaccine while half will get an inert solution, tinted to the same cherry-soda hue. Only after the polio season is over will the code numbers be unlocked so that the records will show precisely...
Repeated dislocations like those in Korea and Israel have shown the error in the Congressional assumption, and have prompted groups like the Red Cross to greater efforts. Yet there are still over 15 million homeless, and the number is growing instead of declining. The program remains decentralized, confusing what is actually a permanent problem for a temporary...
Sloppy play put the Crimson behind in the fifth inning, when Tufts scored two unearned runs on four walks, a wild pitch, and an error by pitcher John Cooke. Only three consecutive be singles in the dusky bottom half of the seventh brought the varsity back to an even score...
...bells became something of a joke to the students. One Lowell House prankster sent a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt informing him that the Russian bells would be christened "The Roosevelt Bells." Shortly after, Master Coolidge received a gracious thank-you note and was forced to rectify the error. The President, in a return letter, said: "I am not in the least perturbed about the name of the bells because, strictly between ourselves, I should much prefer to have a puppy-dog or a baby named after me than one of those carillon effects that is never quite in tune...