Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearings had taken place in a seldom-used chamber of the eight-story U.S. courthouse, and reporters had simply overlooked them. When the case is resumed, the editors said, they expect to cover it. But at week's end, neither the Oregonian nor the Journal had admitted the oversight in print-or told its readers anything about the case...
...Oversight. In Harlingen, Tex., E. N. Foster apologized for mistakenly reporting that thieves had carried off his 800-lb. boiler: he later found it mislaid in a closet...
...first glance last week, Major General Vaughan seemed to have resigned himself to a roasting. As he entered the jammed committee room it was possible to conclude that only by oversight had he failed to put parsley over his ears and an apple in his mouth. His 240-lb. torso was encased in lashings of brass, gold braid, ribbons and other ceremonial military finery, and he eyed the investigating committee nervously, as if he expected each man to pull on a chef's hat and test him with a fork...
...years of mining movies out of the trigger-happy hills of U.S. history and legend, Hollywood had somehow never hit on the famous feud of the West Virginia Hatfields and the Kentucky McCoys. With Roseanna McCoy, Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Irving (Enchantment) Reis have made good the oversight. The result is primarily a story of young love, more pastoral than pugnacious...
Through what Columbia Provost Albert C. Jacobs called "administrative oversight," Fast was given permission to speak on the campus on October...