Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispatching troops early and swiftly to Santo Domingo, Johnson seemed to be following a correct and beneficent intuition. For by week's end it was clear that the Dominican war had already become a fateful turning point, that the fight to prevent a new Communist presence in the hemisphere would have to be decided then and there...
...writes Brzezinski, "offered a basic lesson in international politics. The U.S. assured the Soviets that it will react if pushed too hard-that there is legitimate merit in maintaining international stability." When the U.S. hesitated to act in Viet Nam, the Soviets forgot the lesson and thought the Chinese correct in labeling the U.S. a paper tiger. "It was in this context that the Soviet leadership began to show renewed interest in North Viet...
...demonstration that a drug is suitable for humans. Dr. Vallowe refused to identify his weed, though drug companies tried to persuade him to do so. What he did say was that in his rats the compound did not work, as estrogens do, by suppressing ovulation. If this is correct, he may be a bit closer to proving that nature does know best...
...absolute sense. It accumulates data by observation and measurement. From an assemblage of such data the scientist constructs a hypothesis, a formula that expresses the relationships he finds." As soon as further observation shows that the working hypothesis is faulty, it is replaced by another which seems more nearly correct. "Fortunately, scientific endeavor does not have to be perfect to yield results. The magnificent structure of dynamics was based on a differential calculus that was, logically, full of holes." Kepler's laws explaining planetary motion were based on calculations now shown to be mere approximations. Even the Euclidean underpinnings...
...also succeeded in spoiling a large part of the orchestral accompaniment to the soprano in the Beethoven aria Primo amore, piacer del ciel. In the second half of the minuet in Haydn's Symphony No. 14, he not only had trouble in playing the correct intervals, but also played sharps where they were not written...