Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speculators, fearful of the return of the economic chaos that had characterized the Fourth Republic, were the largest buyers. Because lack of confidence in a currency, like a run on a bank or American foreign policy, moves inexorably toward confirming its premises, they seemed likely to be proven correct...
Clark, who retired from the Court in 1967 when his son became Attorney General, said the popular conception of the Court reaching out to correct wrongs it sees in the society is incorrect. "Often a case triggers a rash of others, making the public think the Court is obsessed with an issue," he said...
...choice of a first play, Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, to launch the new theater was symbolically correct. Houston is the nation's space center, and on opening night 30 of the U.S.'s 52 astronauts were present. They journey among the stars that Galileo peered at through his heretical telescope...
Again and again, at endless conferences, the three men review their flight plan, talk through the sequence of actions that they must take to carry out normal maneuvers, the emergency measures that they must follow to correct equipment failures. For at critical points during their trip, a balky rocket could leave them stranded in orbit around the moon or drive them into collision with the lunar surface. By-the time they are fired from Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A by the world's most powerful rocket, Saturn 5, Borman, Lovell and Anders will be the most thoroughly...
...that in the opinion of many others besides myself, yours is the worst educated, the least aware, and in many ways the most inept set of young people that has ever come to Harvard. And instead of doing all you can to correct what is, after all, an eminently correctable situation, you seem to be all out to acerbate it, by refusing to admit your ignorance, and by being completely unwilling to learn from others! Jerome Minot