Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it would never come again, which has been proved false. . . . The youth of Germany, of Japan and Italy have been taught that aggressive war is the noblest duty of the citizen. . . . This naturally has placed us . . . at a disadvantage which only time, courage and untiring exertion can correct...
...Karolik and the museum. Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall headed a long list of Back Bay notables who gathered to gaze and admire. But Maxim Karolik was not there. He had slipped out a back door as the distinguished guests walked in the front entrance. "I consider it iss correct, it iss even chic that the Karoliks should not go to the opening," he explained. "It iss better that the collection should shine by its own glory...
...Roger said he had been notified that the heretofore independent Commandos would be turned over to the Army. The War Office remained mum, gave no hint that he was correct or who his successor would be. War-wise Londoners chalked up the gaunt, garrulous Sir Roger as another victim of politics-in-the-military, were convinced that Winston Churchill himself had engineered the pigeonholing...
...length the Dictator himself proposed a toast to President Roosevelt, and added (his words translated by ex-Ambassador Oumansky): "May God help him in his task." Several Americans, unable to believe their ears, checked the translation of these words with their Russian table companions. They discovered that it was correct...
...away; or simply because the Japanese premier is named Tojo. But undoubtedly the basic reason is a confidence in our invulnerability, a conviction that Japan can never sail all the way across the Pacific and strike at our coast. This is, to a certain extent, perfectly correct, but the trouble is that it applies just as much to our fleet attacking Japan...