Word: errored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME [July 22] stated that when Madame Ganna Walska divorced Yogi Theos Bernard she agreed to pay him $1,500 a month alimony. That was an error. Believing that Bernard was penniless, Madame Ganna Walska agreed to pay him $1,500 to cover his living expenses for three months until his suit for separate maintenance could be tried. After that payment had been made, it was discovered that he had substantial means and Madame Ganna Walska thereupon sued for divorce. The divorce was granted but did not provide for any cash settlement or for any alimony...
Littlejohn hopes that WAA's job, now 30% completed, will be over & done with by June 30, 1947. Until it is, he is ready for criticism. Said he: "When there's an error made let's find out why. If the hair shirt belongs on my office...
...brief psychotherapy," the doctor does not wait for the patient to arrive at a solution by trial & error. Instead he tries to speed the patient along by interpreting his dreams and verbal ramblings and diagnosing his troubles one at a time...
Seldom had so much error been compressed into so few words, spoken by a high U.S. official in the hopeful, innocent spring of 1945. His was a view of U.S.Russian relations then widely current; it died hard as international cooperation deteriorated through a year of deadlock and turgid compromise. But by the strained and troubled summer of 1946, when Molotov at the Paris Peace Conference again held the center of the stage, the world was learning to think of him not in terms of personal caprice or ambition. Now it knew him as the tough and devoted servant...
Mickey Owen is one of baseball's better catchers, but when he makes an error it is a beaut. The third strike he dropped at Ebbets Field in 1941 cost Brooklyn a World Series game. Last week Mickey decided that joining the Mexican League was his big error for 1946. He recrossed the Rio Grande so suddenly that his wife left most of her clothes behind...