Word: errs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate get on with Part One. If the Harvard community cannot at first offer an ideal performance, the project would still be rewarding all around. "For man must strive, and striving he must err," as Goethe has the Lord say to Mephistopheles...
...physical condition is attested by the fact that they must be able to run a reasonably fast 250-yd. dash and perform five chin-ups and 33 sit-ups.) The planes carried an extra pilot on the first alert flights because flight surgeons were fearful that fatigued pilots might err fatally on delicate landings after 24 hours aloft. But tests proved that they could bear up with no serious fatigue, and the extra pilot was scratched...
...could accuse Henry Kissinger of lacking sobriety. In his most recent book, The Necessity For Choice, he dares to dwell at length on possibilities the mere mention of which sends otherwise calm men into intellectual St. Vitus Dance. Kissinger's critics err grievously when they accuse him of being war-happy; on the contrary, he sometimes seems to be infected, in a unique way, with the same thermonuclear paranoia that vitiates the thinking of his opponents. For example, he provides a precise, methodical critique of summit conferences as substitute for well- formulated policies, but he might well jeoparadize his position...
When the Bank of America began to phase in the first ERMA system two years ago, it cautiously kept its bookkeepers on the job to make sure ERMA did not err. But the system proved so efficient that Beise did away with the monitors...
...judgment. Dammit all, 99.9% of us marry them, don't we?" Britain's Independent Television News set up cameras on Bond Street near TIME-LIFE'S London office, and after some beauty-spotting (to a background reading of TIME'S text), concluded: "TIME did not err...