Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was certainly no guarantee that the new diplomacy would assure peace. It might, in fact, irritate and intensify the crisis. But if it served to correct assumptions on both sides, to sort out myths from facts, then at least it would give the old diplomacy a new starting point that would make some sense...
...President," said the Chicago Daily News's Reporter William McGaffin at Dwight Eisenhower's press conference last week, "is it correct that you yourself are the source of some stories which have appeared the last couple of days expressing your views on domestic and foreign affairs...
...fully organize its field (contracts with only 176 out of 1,750 U.S. dailies) and 2) raise the standards of journalism ("Hardly a word was heard about perfecting the reporter's craft"). As to these sharp critiques we have no bone to pick, but while you are generally correct, you missed a major point in giving the reason for all this...
Around the World on ?5. Belle was a born courtesan, and she was proud of her profession. Her definition of the term owes less to Webster's dictionary ("a loose woman") than it does to Larousse's (a woman of "wit and elegance"), and she is historically correct in her estimate of the social importance of the courtesan in European society before World War I. It was the era of the marriage of convenience, and wives were apt to fit Lord Beresford's description of "county" women-their pearls were real, but their hair was a mess...
...express a personal preference between Vice President Richard Nixon, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, or any other Republican who might be his successor. "I certainly shall never, so far as I am able, indicate publicly ... or privately [a personal preference], because I don't think it is correct or right." ¶ Observed the 43rd anniversary of his marriage to Mamie Geneva Doud with a seasoned philosophy: "I can just say it's been a very happy experience . . ." ¶ Interrupted a holiday weekend with his family and a few old friends at his Maryland mountain retreat, Camp David, to return...