Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That is correct, Mr. President," said Wheeler...
...former Premier Moise Tshombe, whom many of the mercenaries had once served, was perhaps one motive. More likely, the mercenaries, who had not been paid for a while, suspected that Mobutu was about to send them packing. So they decided to take something with them. If that theory is correct, the rebels did not do badly. The two days in which they held the town of Bukavu enabled them to pillage the local bank of several million dollars' worth of zaires, Mobutu's newly created currency for use in the Congo...
...write these things just to be quarrelsome," says Haggin. "I write them because I have strong feeling about music. And I correct wrong ideas. The discovery that most critics were writing nonsense was what started me off." A liberal arts graduate of the City College of New York, he "drifted" into writing for the Nation in 1923 and, except for a three-year stint on the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in the '30s, has reviewed concerts and records for a variety of intellectual weeklies and quarterlies ever since...
Fairbank: I think we've got every possibility if we can maintain a correct posture--get into a better posture--to sit tight within certain limits and wait for a break, wait them out. This is not our strong point. We're all for action. We're people who want to get results, and waiting out the Chinese revolution is a tough assignment...
...vote" politics. Many students, especially members of Students for a Democratic Society, feel that the events of the past year indicate that the two-party mechanism is incapable of dealing with the war. And aside from the fact that 1968 (to say nothing of 1966) may prove them correct, the effect on voting patterns of television images and food costs has driven students to unconventional forms of political action...