Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balance the adverse sentiments expressed abroad, and since there are many other men with just as many qualifications as Byrnes, it becomes clear that his appointment was an abominable one, dictated purely by the need to pay off a political debt. It is not too late to rectify the error, however, and relations with many nations in the Asian-Arab block would be greatly improved if the Governor were sent back to South Carolina...
...honored and beloved uncle? This was not only an outstanding piece of journalism-crisp and straight to the point (as Skinny himself always was), but it is also the only account which my mother (his sister) and I have so far read which . . . does not contain some slight error or inconsistency. Moreover . . . it projected that ringing thing which was Skinny's peculiar genius-that steadfast belief in and love of his country (a composite emotion, nobler even than the love of man for woman, or of mother for child). I hope your delineation of his character and life...
...some barriers, but they do not serve to imprison truth. Their purpose is to prevent hypotheses that have not been proved from being taken for established facts, and to keep people from forgetting the necessity for checking one source against another ... It is to avoid these causes of error that there are barriers, but there are none for truth...
...enough. Get a little color into your stories, but get the colors right." Ivy herself gave the right one: "I'm a natural blonde, [and] that's straight from the horse's mouth." The A.P. did not cover the event, picked up the account (and error) from an unobservant British newsman...
...News. The Secret Service compounded its original error, says Giskes, by making drops "rigidly and without variation for over a year." There is no telling how long the Secret Service would have kept it up if two agents had not escaped and told London the bad news. After that, London's messages over the ten lines then leading to Giskes' office were uniformly dull. Giskes ended the tragic farce with a final message for the section chiefs he had fooled: "We understand that you have been endeavoring for some time to do business in Holland without our assistance...