Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maid of high or low degree Was safe from his unbridled lechery. Within his house, upon his maids And servants' wives he preyed. Until he fell into the error Of thinking that his mortal shell would last forever...
...only surface, no depth. A young male invalid, living with his rich aunt and uncle, develops an obsessive womanish curiosity about manners and motives. He becomes acute enough to predict the exact course of his relatives' household skirmishing, and concludes therefore that he understands the skirmishers. His error does not matter until he begins analyzing Monsieur Martereau, a family friend-a steady, solid-seeming fellow who agrees to buy a house for the uncle. Martereau drives the young man to distraction by his oxlike simplicity. "Words are not for him what they are for me," the invalid muses, "thin...
...grievous error seems to have crept into the thinking of the American people. This involves the idea that all we need for success is to get organized and wait for someone to "articulate a purpose" for us. This hen-and-chickens kind of thinking led the Germans into a disastrous war under the leadership of an articulate, power-mad Hitler...
Shame! Shame! Shame! How could 60 editorial researchers, plus who knows how many proofreaders, make such a horrendous error [as to spell the Philadelphia Inquirer the Enquirer on Nov. 16]? Please keep them all after school and make them write 100 times each: Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Swedes' arrival. Dashing for a cab. the royal couple were quickly embroiled in a horrendous Piccadilly Circus traffic snarl, including fire engines, but they got to the Globe only 15 minutes late. The King smiled fleetingly when the Queen said that the Haymarket had been her error. The Haymarket, which had so briefly and unknowingly enjoyed the pleasure of His Majesty's company, was playing Samuel Taylor's The Pleasure of His Company...