Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilmot had an outstanding season this past fall and was a unanimous All-Ivy selection. He far outpolled Brown's Young in the Ivy balloting and his absence on the All-American squad is certainly an oversight of the selection committee...
...internal heater be increased to 65 volts. Inexplicably, the subcontractor for the tanks, Beech Aircraft, kept delivering switches with a top rating of only 28 volts. Despite elaborate checkout procedures that were repeated through six previous Apollo manned missions, neither NASA nor its suppliers ever detected the oversight. Indeed, the error might never have been discovered if it had not been seriously compounded by other blunders just before the launch of Apollo...
...This oversight hardly seems deliberate, for Three Thirty Four gives extended and sympathetic coverage to the demands and actions of Harvard's Black Community and to Women's Liberation. Both sections suffer from the mediocre camera work which plagues the entire Yearbook, but the printed pieces combine sensitivity with enough militance to sound authentic...
...agree that he ought to quit and, in fact, had drafted a paragraph (she "firmed it up pretty strong in her own handwriting") that might be included in the President's State of the Union message. But the statement was left behind on his bedroom telephone table. Freudian oversight...