Word: errored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, now 74, ailing, and President of the Provisional Government of Israel, gave the world his life story (Trial and Error; Harper; $5). It was also the life story of Zionism. In & out of the action weaves a dramatic subplot: the ironic love story of Weizmann's devotion to Great Britain, which began with high-minded platonic exchanges and ended with bloody fighting in the desert, where (between them) the British and the Zionists had produced an infant state...
...city room. But staffers are not encouraged to visit the party's offices. Anyone who does is watched with suspicion by his comrades, even Worker editors. There is a reason: a visit to the ninth floor can mean that the visitor has caught a staffer in "capitalist error" and is informing...
Many of the groups who opposed the pianist's tour feel that as a Nazi sympathizer, Gieseking should not be able to profit from an American concert tour. This feeling is understandable, but again it leads to a damaging error. This position follows logically to the absurd proposition that American cannot buy goods made by any Germans who condoned the Nazi government. If Gieseking cannot profit from the sale of his talent, the many millions of Germans like him should not be able to profit either...
...York Times last week printed a dispatch from The Hague, reporting that the Vatican was putting pressure on Dutch Catholics to prevent a settlement with Indonesia. The Times attributed the story to "a source close to the Foreign Ministry." Next day the meticulous Times corrected its error. It wasn't "a source close to the Foreign Ministry"; it was "a source beyond reproach...
...believe that the Administrators of Lamont Library are in error when they prevent 'Cliffe students from using its facilities. However, the author of the letter is attacking this problem with the same immaturity that she accuses us and our administration of having. Her "name-calling" was rather amusing but very unimpressive. The more mature way of dealing with this error would be reason rather than "name-calling." I might propose that "Miss Name Withheld" get a majority of the 'Cliffe students behind her and induce their administration, by petition, to open negotiations with our administration to correct this wrong...