Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves and their role in the world. Having gorged themselves materially in successive waves of Fresswelle (eating), Autowelle (auto buying), Wohnungswelle (home buying), Reisewelle (traveling) and even Edelfresswelle (delicacies), they now seem intent on quite a different course: a neue Stimmungswelle?a new national mood. They want to correct the world's mistaken notion that only a fat German is a happy one, which they feel has encouraged others to ignore Germany's pressing problems and national frustrations. As Willy Brandt cries: "We are economic giants but political dwarfs...
Constants & Change. "When the general convictions of mankind and the insights of its wisest men agree," Simons argues, "we can be reasonably sure that they embody a substantially correct view of the contents of natural moral law." Some moral law is virtually self-evident and thus constant through history-for example, respect for life and property. But there has also been change and development in man's understanding of morality. The modern consensus establishes as sinful certain behavior patterns, such as slavery and polygamy, that previous ages accepted as moral. Now, Simons believes, a consensus is developing outside...
...campus tables. This was won in effect two years ago, since it became possible for anyone to set up tables with a minimum of bureaucratic difficulty in certain agreed-upon places, and since the union was considered off-limits to everyone, government agencies included. Striking students are correct in demanding that this equity of treatment be restored...
...nose cone. As the attitude of the rocket be gins to change, the nose vents gulp in air at different pressures, and those changing pressures control a small jet of hot gases shot at right angles into the rocket's exhaust. As the exhaust gases are deflected, they correct the rocket's attitude...
...This is the first time I've seen correct teaching at Holy Cross," Marion said. "They were still very shy and timid, probably because of their inexperience...