Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Thought for Neutrals. The price that Kishi himself would have to pay for his error was now painfully clear. Courageously defying continuing riots, the strong-willed Premier kept the Diet in session until the vital moment at week's end when the revised Security Treaty at last achieved ratification. But from sources within his own squabbling party came word that Kishi would have to resign his premiership by autumn at the latest, might well be compelled to quit long before that (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...computer has been told in advance what course the missile should follow to hit a selected target. If the actual course and speed deviate from this course, the computer makes corrections. When the missile has reached the correct top speed, the computer cuts off the rocket fuel. An error of one foot per second at this point means a miss one mile from the target...
...nation, roughly 60 million people who represent every patch of democracy's hand-stitched quilt, every economic layer, every laboring and professional pursuit in the country. Suburbia is the nation's broadening young middle class, staking out its claim across the landscape, prospecting on a trial-and-error basis for the good way of life for itself and for the children that it produces with such rapidity. It is, as Social Scientist Max Lerner (America as a Civilization) has put it, "the focus of most of the forces that are remaking American life today...
Only later did Waldseemüller learn that in 1492 another navigator named Columbus had preceded Vespucci to the West. Waldseemüller tried to correct his error, but the misnomer stuck. His maps, one of them a rendition of the globe in twelve elliptical segments, became rare treasures for antiquarians...
...Playwright Rose has his documents well in hand), it weakens the drama. The narrator concedes, almost offhandedly, that the jury rendered its verdict in good faith; but after all the blatant hostility of the judge and prosecution-and, seemingly, of society itself-the play admits no possibility of tragic error, only of deliberate malevolence...