Word: incorrection
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...people who voted for him as Kentucky's secretary of state while he was in a mental hospital. ¶ FBI agents discovered that an excuse which 14-year-old Patsy Whiting of Green Bay, Wis. brought to school to explain a day's absence was incorrect. Patsy hadn't had a cold at all; she had ridden to Laona (pop. 1,113), Wis. with her 41-year-old mother and her half brother, 24-year-old Charles French Jr., and, after all had pulled on masks, she had helped them rob the Laona State Bank...
...Lattimore. He said that Lattimore was "the top Soviet espionage agent"-and to this day McCarthy has not produced a scrap of evidence indicating that Lattimore was a spy or in any way disloyal. The question of whether Lattimore's analysis of the Far East was correct or incorrect-which is still a highly relevant and important question-does not interest...
...Thank you for the many compliments in your write-up of me and my lucky week at Forest Hills [TIME, Sept. 17] . . . However, the impression that I received lessons from Tennis Pro Wilbur Folsom in exchange for retrieving tennis balls is incorrect. He received payment from my family for my instruction from the beginning...
Correct Thinking. "Incorrect" thoughts in Red China may be punished by anything up to death. "Correct" thoughts can often be the sure path to success. This probably explains why millions of mainland Chinese are engaged in hsueh hsi and why Red China has a dedicated army which rarely breaks, an efficient and incorruptible corps of administrators, and a zealous youth ready to believe that black is white and to die for that warped belief...
...Internal Revenue concluded that one in four returns are wrong by at least $2, and almost always in the taxpayer's favor. Worst offenders are farmers, professional men and owners of small businesses. The trouble lies not in innocent mistakes of addition, the bureau found, but in incorrect statements of income, too generous personal deductions, bogus exemptions for dependents. Altogether such "errors," as the bureau politely calls them, probably cheated the Government out of $1 billion...