Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...President pitched with intensity. He got one hit, a double, in five trips to the plate. He also walked once and once reached first with the help of an uncounted error. The final score was 13 to 3, and despite the heat Carter insisted on playing all nine innings. Said Billy: "It's the first thing he's won in so damn long, it's time he won something...
...planned more than 150 hours of television coverage; now viewers will have to settle for brief reports on news programs. But the boycott fell short too, with France, Australia and other allies refusing to join. If President Carter thought the tactic would show the Soviet people the error of Afghanistan, he was mistaken. Today ordinary Soviets claim to see little connection between the invasion and the boycott. Instead, they blame "warmongering" by Carter...
Titus Andronicus (William Hutt), doughtiest general of the Roman state, has come home with his Gothic captives. Turning aside the proffered imperial crown, he bestows it on Saturninus (Jack Wetherall), an odious opportunist though royal in lineage. Titus prefigures Lear's foolish error in dividing up his kingdom...
Experimentation, trial and error, mean as much to Roger as to any rats and pigeon man. Experience shows that young men out for the evening with their girlfriends present the best targets. If they want to impress with their sensitivity, they will hand over some change, or even a bill. And if they've had a little much to drink, if they want to impress with their meanness, often their companion will talk them...
...retrospective. Being a creation of the Enlightenment, it is even inclined to be contemptuous of history. As Descartes said, historians are people who spend a lifetime attempting to discover facts about Roman life that any illiterate serving girl in Cicero's time knew well. History was dank with error, irrationality and the poisonous influences of Europe. The New World began afresh. The vast continent of America seemed an immense, wild Eden to be mastered...