Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve Angry Men. An enthralling battle of minds in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cross-examined; with Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
faubus (faw-bus), v.i.; FAUBUSED, FAUBUSING. 1. To commit an error of enormous magnitude through malice and ignorance. 2. To make a serious error, to commit a fault through stupidity or mental confusion. Syn. Blunder, err, bollix...
...fight against inflation, said the President, governments must curb their own demands upon the economy - "a difficult task in this day of heavy defense outlays" - and follow credit policies that promote stability. But government measures alone cannot win the fight unless nations avoid "the costly error of overpaying ourselves for the work we do." Payments for "productive efforts of all sorts," i.e., profits as well as wages, should rise in step with productivity, not outrun it. Here Ike echoed a theme he had voiced in his State of the Union address last January: labor and business, as well as government...
...time went on, Halton found error all about him. In 1956, when a group of students asked Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss to make a speech, Halton huffed that this was "Princeton's darkest hour," brought in a reporter from the Chicago Tribune to tell the students about Hiss and his Communist connections. The American Association of University Professors, charged Halton, "has abuses more serious than have been found in the inquiries of the Teamsters Union." He blasted a book called Morals and Medicine used as a text in some religion courses, saying that it misrepresented Roman Catholic teaching. Later...
...Administration made a grave error in rejecting the reorganization of military pay scales suggested by the Cordiner Committee...