Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...district judge, 60% of his 23 civil rights decisions were reversed by the Fifth Circuit Court. In 1963, he dismissed a complaint on behalf of blacks who were trying to attend a Tallahassee theater; the Circuit Court reversed his ruling with the biting comment, "These orders are clearly in error...
Dedicated Telephoneticist. There is, of course, a margin of error connected with the game, specifically in the possible confusion between 1's and 7's, O's and O's. Dialing a wrong telephone name may also bring on an operator asking: "What number did you dial, please?" Instead of trying to explain, it is usually far easier to hang up and call again. None of this deters a dedicated telephoneticist like Los Angeles Mathematician Angela Dunn, who has created words out of most of her friends' numbers. A pharmacist and his wife for whom...
...impression that all race horses have just been fed the medicine cabinet. Horse racing is a well- supervised and largely honest sport, but it does have it share of crooks. The betting public likes to imagine much more crimes than actually exist for the betting public is in error two- thirds of the time. It needs a scapegoat for its handicapping errors...
...learned that it is no easier in Guatemala to be a revolutionary, and no more important. The third world will not make our revolution for us. And we will not help the third world by treating the people of America as our enemy, an error the Vietnamese have never made. With the repressive power of the United States so great, it may well be that much of the third world will not be able to free itself until we stop the rulers of our country from making war on the people of the world...
...Kane. however, who committed the most incriminating error. In the article by Savett, Kane says, "Our team had not been on the ice. It was our freshmen, just skating with some Ithaca High School skaters." But in the letter he mailed to the CRIMSON three weeks later, Kane seemed to have changed his mind. "There was no one on the Lynah Rink ice Saturday morning, October 18. I repeat: no one, " he wrote...