Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...displayed by the entire Scranton camp, despite the convincing claims of Goldwater and the national press that the conservative has more than enough committed delegates for a first ballot nomination. Scranton followers are still firm in the conviction that their own delegate count may yet be more correct and their last-minute drive for the nomination successful...
...cracked the secrecy. For at least a week before the bachot, parents and children happily paid as much as $300 for the three tough questions on the philosophy section of the test, which turned out to be: "Does perception provide proof of the reality of an object? Is it correct to speak of the lessons of the past? Is liberty of judgment compatible with the necessity of truth?" As word spread to 80% of the local students and to Nice, Corsica, Toulon and Paris, the price dropped to $30. Many Frenchmen found the questions more interesting than the scandal...
...person is innocent until proved guilty. Yet each year thousands of Americans who have been charged with a crime but not yet brought to trial spend weeks and sometimes months in prison. They stay behind bars simply because they cannot afford the price of bail. In an effort to correct the inequities of a practice that, in effect, discriminates against the poor, 450 judges, district attorneys, lawyers, and police from all 50 states gathered in Washington for the first National Conference on Bail and Criminal Justice...
Dirksen would amend this section so that it would not empower federal courts to order the transportation of pupils to correct a racial imbalance-as in "bussing...
...another ambition now. "I am working on being a charming old lady," she says in the last chapter of The Rest of the Story. "It is not easy. I have much to correct in my character...