Word: errored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help support this household, he must work with lightning speed, painting with swift, sure brush strokes on pieces of thin bamboo paper. The slightest error in wetting or pressing upon the brush would mean an ugly smear and having to start all over again. But Ch'ih Pai-shih never has to start over again, and he can turn out four or five of his delicate paintings a day. These he sells only on order, and only by the square foot (his price...
...error to TIME'S sport editor . . . for stating that Giants' Manager Mel Ott hung a $500 fine on Pitcher Bill Voiselle after the latter served up a home-run ball with a count of "two balls and no strikes" [TIME, June...
...might correct an error and at the same time make a small contribution to philology by noting that neither the late Peter McGuinness nor any other authentic representative of Greenpoint referred to the section as Green-pernt [TIME, June 21]. I knew McGuinness well . . . and I never once heard him or anyone else from Greenpoint mispronounce the section's name. . .It is perfectly true that New Yorkers often render "oi" as "er," and vice versa, but I can swear under oath that Greenpoint is called Greenpernt only by people from Coney Island, Croton-on-Hudson and Beverly Hills...
City College announced that Gurewitch had been the victim of a "clerical error," gave him his medal six years late...
Hiding in the Limelight. Yet that was the error made by much of the British public in the years before Churchill became a member of the war cabinet. The paradox was that he remained in part unknown despite all his own writing, all his years of public service and all that had been written about him. He hid in the limelight. His secret weapon was that everyone thought he knew all about...