Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Absence of samples, Moore charged, was an oversight. "Specimens of all food served are always kept in the Army," he said. "From now on they will be kept at Harvard...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...
Confusion or oversight...
...Oversight. In Honolulu, Light Heavyweight Richard Cunningham jauntily climbed through the ropes into the ring, briskly peeled off his robe, promptly climbed out again, presently reappeared, all set, wearing the trunks he had forgotten the first time...
...repair this oversight, I hypnotized the patient and made him repeat the formula for his left hand...