Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DeGuglielmo hopes that if any alternation is found, the voter will correct his ballot, and then the Election Commission will rule the original spoiled. Any subsequent action, or possible prosecution if such is warranted, is entirely up to the judge, DeGuglielmo said...
...Leap Forward" was and is a miscalculation by a regime that is still trying to pull the correct strings of economic and political statesmanship. China is potentially strong; it is a country which, whether we like it or not, will give us a great deal of trouble in its growing process. But this process cannot be halted any more, regardless of its errors and atrocities...
Barrel Roll. Details of what happened next would have to await a Civil Aeronautics Board investigation. It may have been that Berke failed to correct with his left rudder in time, or inadvertently applied more right. The 707 flipped on its back. The gut-pounding stress was too much for the 248,000-lb. plane, and ordinarily the wings might have torn loose. But the 707 was designed to lose its engines under such strain, rather than its wings-and three engines ripped loose, plummeted to earth...
...matter to Oppenheimer, and both men agreed that the suggestion was treasonable (this exchange, Chevalier later said, took place in the pantry of Oppenheimer's house while the scientist was mixing martinis). To this day there is no conclusive evidence as to which of the two versions is correct, but Chevalier (who has lived in France since 1950) insists on the truth of the second, or pantry, version. In that case, why did Oppenheimer tell the first story...
...Crimson's mental attitude is at the correct pitch for a meet of such importance. Fitzgerald's injury notwithstanding, the team has confidence in its ability...