Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first major error in judgment was when we went to Philadelphia to open the campaign [Sept. 9] and made it appear beforehand that this opening could be compared to Nixon's start in Chicago. He had been planning that Chicago parade and all the trimmings for six weeks. I had six days. All the stories comparing the two had a permanent impact. Nobody cared that we had no time. Nobody noted that Philadelphia isn't Chicago...
...keeping silent. For me to have kept silent would have meant joining those who support the action with which I did not agree. That would have been like lying. If I had not done this, I would have had to consider myself responsible for the error of our government. Feeling as I do about those who kept silent in a former period [the Stalin era], I consider myself responsible...
Cornell never had much of a chance. Through some administrative error, Harvard did not even mark the 5.5-mile Franklin Park course, and the Big Red runners had to jog around it with Harvard coach Bill McCurdy prior to the race. From the opening gun, however, there were plenty of Crimson harriers in front to show...
...fired as a substitute teacher in the New York City schools for taking his sixth-grade class to a Black Power rally in memory of Malcolm X did not unduly alarm N.Y.U. It considered Hatchett's writings on Afro-American culture and religion sound enough to outweigh that error. But apparently no one at N.Y.U. had read a rambling, hysterical attack upon Jewish domination of the schools that Hatchett had written for the journal of the city's African-American Teachers Association. He charged that "antiblack Jews" and "their power-starved imitators, the black Anglo-Saxons" (meaning subservient...
...hard Detroit fans took small comfort in a significant statistic: in 40 of Detroit's 103 regular-season victories, the Tigers were either tied or behind as the seventh inning began, then clawed ahead on a fortuitous clutch hit or an opponent's ill-timed error. There was still a long chance that they could turn the same sort of trick...