Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner we realize that our elementary education system is responsible for the average American's political naivete and gullibility, the sooner the necessary steps can be taken to correct the conditions and institutions involved. It would be far wiser to divert the funds involved from Army Information and Education to the subsidization of school systems. Willard Hertz...
...York newspapers with astrology columns reach Stalin he can read horoscopes which make as much sense as many columns of weighty political analysis. On Dec. 21 the Journal-American's Frances Drake advised: "[You are] sometimes too obstinate for the success that can be yours. . . . Correct the tendency to value material gain too highly." The Daily News's Marion Drew was still more specific...
...something about 'How about marrying me, Babe?' Really, I don't remember. . . ."). Then there was Eyewitness Jorge Benavides. a Peruvian delegate to U.N. Said he: "In Peru, we do what you do here in America. We bop him on the nose, like you say. Is that correct? Please do not involve me in any fights...
...stepped a grey, bespectacled man with a grey, correct bearing. He carried a walking stick. In the lapel of his neat tan suit bloomed a flaming carnation. He fussily flicked a speck of dust from his coat, coughed with the conviction of a man swearing, and walked into the Foreign Office's cavernous hall for an interview with Argentina's suave Foreign Minister, Dr. Juan Atilio Bramuglia...
...strikes against federal, state, and municipal governments; so long as the injustices of private enterprise are carried over into public works, the worker has a right to strike. But in those utilities which are vital to the national economy, it is the duty of the government to correct conditions which imperil the operation of the utility. And the conditions which create the current blind obedience to a demagogic and dangerous leader are deeply rooted in the facts of private ownership. If Mr. Truman cannot succeed in bluffing Mr. Lewis, then he will be sowing the wind. And the nation shall...