Word: error
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Council to assemble in St. Peter's Basilica. Before them lay a historic document. In matters of faith and morals, it declared, when the Roman Pontiff speaks ex cathedra (from the chair of Peter, i.e., by virtue of his office) to the universal church, he is incapable of error...
...battle over the flag tends to erase distinctions. Says S.I. Hayakawa, president of San Francisco State College: "You can be a rightist or a leftist and be a patriotic American. When a symbol becomes a fetish, then you make the semantic error of confusing the symbol with what it is supposed to symbolize." The flag in theory symbolizes national unity, but such a unity in the U.S. has always been somewhat illusory except when war or depression joined together the nation's disparate cultures to overcome an overriding threat. In any case, national unity can never be legislated or policed...
Yastrzemski's double, a wild pitch and an error gave Boston its first run in the opening inning. That margin vanished in the third when Frank Howard (again) bounced a two-out, 3-2 pitch off the centerfield wall, scoring two runs. Retaliation came in the seventh...
...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...
...communities is to be charged to the many in all such groups who, like the honest burghers of the Weimar Republic, peace-loving, tolerant, with no desire to impose their views on others, have been unwilling to pass critical judgment on only of their kind. Where critical judgment fails error quickly moves...