Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allow for coastal idiosyncrasies-showed that they would still match if they were set side by side. "The results were rather amazing," said Hurley. "The study went right down the whole Atlantic and fitted together everything, including Greenland and all the other islands with less than one degree error...
...Israeli Defense Army is an extension of the Israeli personality--aggressive, intelligent, and disorderly. That it is aggressive is now beyond despute: operating with no margin for error, the Israelis have to be aggressive in order to survive. One mistake and the country could be over whelmed in a matter of hours. Perhaps more than any other Army of the world, the Israeli Army depends upon the intelligence and initiative of the individual soldier. Even in the lower ranks, I was surprised to find polyglots who responded intelligently to the questions posed by reporters in a numfber of different languages...
...reduce X-ray emissions of high voltage tubes to safe levels, manufacturers equip the tubes with metallic shields that absorb most of the radiation. But because of a manufacturing error, the shields inside many of the 24,500-volt G.E. tubes were misaligned. As a result, part of the X rays emitted by the anode could leak through the bottom of the tube. The radiation from the tube, according to the Public Health Service, ranged from ten to 100,000 times more than the rate considered safe...
Faced with the mounting proof of their error, the Viet Cong last week issued grim orders that "anyone saying that Nguyen Van Be is alive will be shot on the spot." Meantime, Be's name has been put at the top of a list of those marked for death, and a price of 2,000,000 piasters (about $17,000) has been put on his head. Viet Cong agents have been caught bugging the phones at the security house in Saigon to which Be has been transferred under heavy guard. Be's home village...
...then later banning its opening, criticized the censors' prim hostility to such themes as religion. Frightened by the uproar the article caused among the young Communists, Komsomolskaya Pravda last week ran an editorial condemning not only the two critics but also its own editors for spreading "gross ideological error...