Word: correct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vowell, who presides with consonance over the university's writing lab in Emporia, Kans., offers free guidance on a writer's hot line, a Dial-a-Grammarian service for students and anyone else who calls with a question about correct usage. Other such lines have sprung up lately at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Ark., and the Johnson County Community College near Kansas City, Kans. "We get several calls a week from California alone," says Arkansas English Instructor Michael Montgomery. The most common questions concern the correct use of who vs. whom, and which vs. that...
Andrus told an audience of about 125 people at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the life of a nation is similar to the life of a person. "In our youth we can be wasteful, but we have to correct our mistakes before it's too late," he said...
...presently have available evidence that would enable me to judge whether or not former Senator Clark's findings are correct, nor perhaps do more than 90 per cent of those who heard Professor Nolan at the Faculty meeting and on the live radio broadcast of that meeting. This being the case, it is misleading for Professor Nolan to have given this document more standing than it deserves, more standing than its author claims for it. Arthur Maass Professor of Government
...might be or where. Reporters pumped other reporters, chefs, food authors, anyone who might draw a bead on the wayward cuisinier. McPhee was besieged by calls; so was The New Yorker, which did not, in fact, know Otto's identity. The Washington Post published several guesses-one was correct-but did not pursue the story...
...image does not con everyone. His father treats Gold as if he were a delinquent child; his daughter nails him as a philandering skunk; and his wife seems to feel he is not worth getting excited about. All three are correct. In Washington, however, Gold is hailed as the coiner of the phrase, "You're boggling my mind," and that innovative answer to journalists' questions: "I don't know...