Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shooting. Barger startled the Congressmen by saying there could have been four shots, and thus a second gunman. But when pressed, he said there was only a fifty-fifty chance that four shots could have been fired. Further, he said his finding could be the result of random statistical error. When Michigan Republican Harold Sawyer grumbled, "I'd hate to sue anybody or prosecute any body on this sort of evidence," Barger just shrugged...
...committee reasoned that Mendeleev's 1869 work had already been widely accepted as a basic part of chemical knowledge. Thus, because the will of Dynamite Inventor Alfred Nobel limited Nobel Prizes to "recent" discoveries, Mendeleev did not qualify. A Nobel historian later called the Mendeleev decision a regrettable error. More recently, Rockefeller Institute Biochemist O.T. Avery, who demonstrated in 1944 that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the carrier of heredity, was first denied a prize because of skepticism about his claims. His death permanently excluded him from the Nobel roster; the award cannot be granted posthumously. Later, Nobel officials announced...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Illusion of Technique, William Barrett ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
...West, those streaking Dodgers ran into Phil Niekro's knuckler as the Atlanta Braves eked out a 3-2 win. Shortstop Bill Russel's costly error allowed the Braves to score the decisive unearned game-winner in the fourth inning...
...misfired the ball into centerfield in his haste to turn the double play. Remy then let a Reggie Jackson dribbler squirt through his legs, and the aggressive-running Bombers had tallied twice to close the gap to 6-3. But Jackson was cut down trying to stretch the Remy error into a double, and reliever Bob Stanley fanned Chris Chambliss to quash the rebellion...