Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sucking the blood from her lover's arm so as to keep herself "alive." This allows the distressed hero to come right out with an old-fashioned moral for the clergy: "Never gaze upon a woman, and walk abroad only with eyes fixed upon the ground; for . . . the error of a single moment is enough to make one lose eternity...
...cancer-causing agent was known in tobacco smoke, so medical researchers were careful not to fall into the error of arguing post hoc, ergo propter hoc. For a long time, their scientific caution would let them say no more than that there must be a "correlation" between heavy, continued cigarette smoking and lung cancer...
...Against this error, our century has seen a reaction which has sought to overcome the isolation of man from man by imposing upon rebellious individuals a pattern of compulsory and all-embracing state organization, with unlimited power in the hands of the civil government. Hence socialism, in its various guises . . . The Christian concept of man, however, is that he is both personal and social . . . The Christian view . . . avoids the opposing extremes of individualism and collectivism, both of which are grounded on false concepts of liberty...
Jones was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in April of 1892. "I recognized my error and at the age of two persuaded my parents to move to Wisconsin . . . which in the days of the elder LaFollette was not the way it is now." He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, got his Master's degree at the University of Chicago and took his first teaching post in the University of Texas as "The Adjunct Professor of English and Literature." From this post, Jones moved around, teaching at the Universities of Texas, Montana, and North Carolina, and finally winding up back...
...drawn from all this? Certainly neither of the Republican conclusions have much to do with the facts. The Democratic party faced the issues as well as one could expect, and, in any case, its subsequent record of opposition to domestic and foreign Communism is enough to erase any error it made with regard to Harry Dexter White. Nor is there anything in the outcome to help formulate future policy. The atmosphere today is completely different from what it was in 1946, and the Democrats had already taken vigorous steps to rid the government of security risks. To base repressive measures...