Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hazard of Retrial. During a decade of legal maneuvering, Sheppard's lawyers tried a variety of appeals. They brought up claims of new evidence, argued that their client's rights had been violated, said that there had been judicial error. But not until they had exhausted all possible remedies in the state courts were they free to bring a habeas corpus proceeding in a federal court. But even this successful petition leaves the doctor's legal battles far from over...
Insisting that "the evidence against a Goldwater candidacy is so devastating as to be incapable of complete error," Scranton continued: "In state after state, surveys show that against Lyndon Johnson, Barry would not carry even a majority of Republican voters." He reeled off the results of polls taken among Republicans, some by independent pollsters, some by his own public opinion specialist, Philadelphia's John Bucci: nationally, 62% of Republicans would vote for Johnson, only 29% for Goldwater; in New Jersey, 72% of Republicans prefer Johnson, 20% Goldwater; Maryland, 63% Johnson, 27% Goldwater; Ohio, 64% Johnson, 17% Goldwater; Iowa...
Pffft went the tires of the Ghana Ambassador, three federal Congressmen, one state assemblyman, and a plainclothes detective shadowing a suspect. One squad of cops was discovered gleefully flattening the tires of 35 legally parked cars, until someone pointed out the error. When police moved in on six illegally parked official cars they almost came to blows with some marines on guard; a squad of battle-dressed tommy gunners was eventually called up to protect the wheels' wheels...
...people of the book are joyless, hateless, empty of good or evil, fleshy machines that transmit at the audible level the prattle of Babbittry and, octaves above, the silent scream of tedium. The prose in which they are described is also joyless and hateless, empty of merit and of error, painfully boring. And it is obvious that this is intentional. Farrell's setting is St. Louis in the 1920s, and his method is to make his readers suffer at the same pace as his characters...
Board v. Board. According to Phillips, his most serious error was that he got only verbal permission for his housing scheme from a zoning official, who now denies everything. When the neighbors yowled that the caboose violated the zoning code ban on any "eyesore or nuisance" in Miami, the local zoning board bucked the complaint to the county zoning department, which offered the suggestion that the caboose be painted green, hidden by shrubs and used only as a playhouse. That pleased neither side, so the case ascended to the zoning board of appeals, which ordered Phillips to remove the caboose...