Word: errs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobody Wanted. Harry Truman began his year of triumph a sorely beset man. He was popular with almost nobody. The country grinned at the G.O.P. jeers: "Don't shoot the piano player, he's doing the best he can," "To err is Truman," "I'm just mild about Harry." Eastern wags even gibed at his farmer's habit of rising early: he did it only to have more time to put both feet in his mouth...
...fact that 1,204 of the alumni gathered in Philadelphia for the A.H.C. meeting were on hand Saturday was apparently enough to cause the itinerant sportsmen from Cambridge to err six separate times and lose to Pennsylvania 7 to 6 the day after their Princeton stopover. This second game was horribly reminiscent of some of the team's local efforts, for a four-run seventh produced a one-run advantage which Red Connolly and his eight reluctant backers-up were unable to group securely enough...
...years in Mussolini's prisons. From his presiding rostrum in the Assembly he had once rebuked his own party boss: "Honorable Togliatti, you don't have the floor. I beg you to be silent." Terracini had been known to believe, in the past, that the Kremlin might err. He had raised such a fuss over the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939 that he had been banished from the party's inner councils for a while. But last week even Umberto Terracini judged that he was on dangerous ground. Day after his party flogging, The Brain recanted, pleaded...
...TIME regrets that the statement in question gave a wrong impression, hopes that its story did not similarly err on the side of overenthusiasm...
...Government will err sadly if it attempts a heavy handed settlement of industrial dissension. The problems is not one to be resolved over night, and when the solution is found it will be in the sphere of labor-management cooperation. Labor is still smarting from the searing humiliation of years of shoddy treatment. Like a Charles Atlas alumnus it is flaunting its new-found power; while management has not yet realized the full potentialities of accepting labor as a responsible and equal partner...