Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not permit a brush fire to destroy a forest if a little digging will correct its spread...
...should like to correct a possible misunderstanding growing out of my reply to your questionnaire on the tutorial system...
...willing to give his opinion on any subject, concurred: "We must make sure that we don't chip away our freedoms to get at conspirators. ... It would be folly to do anything that in the long run proved as harmful as the things we seek to correct." His solution: ban Communists from office in unions, cooperatives and corporations...
...explosion at Mather, Pa. in 1928. To miners and many a plain citizen it seemed like a senseless tragedy. Mine inspectors had been denouncing Centralia's No. 5 for years-one recent report had listed many dangerous violations of safety codes, but little had ever been done to correct them...
...Party Ba Gu is Party jargon. It combines hackneyed language with unfamiliar terminology. ... In our drive to build the Party to 100,000 let's be on guard against Ba Gu. . . . When Communists are accused of being dogmatic by sincere persons what is often meant is that our correct thought is so wrapped up in the language of Ba Gu that we are simply not understood. Ba Gu is harmful to the individual, harmful to our cause and must therefore be exterminated...