Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preflight wind-tunnel tests. With less gliding ability, the capsule plunged earthward on a steep trajectory that aimed her short of the target. By the time Grissom had calculated the trajectory on his computer, and realized that Molly was getting less lift than expected, it was too late to correct the error. Fortunately, the lift data obtained from Molly's minor mishap will make it possible to land future Gemini capsules with much greater precision...
...hope it is not too late to correct two misimpressions conveyed by your report of Dr. Frank Graham's speech to the Winthrop House Forum last week...
First, Dr. Graham did not say that the French and Russians were "correct" in not paying their assessments (as the headline reported) nor did he even say that they were technically correct (as the body of the story said). What he did say was that their position can be justified by a strict interpretation of the Charter, an interpretation with which he personally disagrees, but which gives the Franco-Russian position a firmer legal basis than most Americans realize. To say, that a particular political position can be justified by a strict construction of some fundamental law is quite...
Dedijer then stated that conspiratorial interpretation of revolutions is in correct because it does not recognize that a revolution "is made for the benefit of the people who begin and join...
...Committee recommended a 9750,000 housecleaning the use of outside contractual help to catch up with the backlog of medical records, more clerks to keep abreast of current records, and the allocation, of extensive funds to correct the nursing shortage...