Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curlicue highway system. For the sociologically minded, Negro districts are a must. One tourist guide in San Francisco now makes a point of stopping poorly dressed Negroes in the street to ask directions. "I always get a polite reply," she says. "I think that this does a lot to correct wrong impressions that many visitors have about...
...slips an extra bill to a young second waiter, the tip is reproachfully returned-an event about as plausible as the Grand Canal turning to Valpolicella. John O'Hara, a Hemingway disciple but less sentimental, is not so much concerned with friendship between servant and master as with correctness; his elderly club members know that it is as gauche to overtip as to undertip, and they seem to get away with shiny half-dollars that would be flung into the faces of lesser men. J. P. Marquand also knew, along with the late George Apley, the virtue...
...TIME'S term was 150,000 "preparations," not prescription drugs. Reader Smith is correct in saying that this figure includes other drug store merchandise. However, the fact remains that the majority of the items involved are drugs in their many forms...
...Reston slyly suggested quite another diagnosis: "The official line in Washington is that President Kennedy hurt his back digging holes for trees in Canada, but there is another theory that he did it straining in disbelief at what he heard from Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. If this theory is correct, it is not surprising, for the little comrade asked for the world with a ribbon around it, and blandly argued that Mr. Kennedy had no reasonable alternative but to accept his thesis...
...anyone who has seen the deftness of Watts' stickhandling and play-making knows that the coaches couldn't have been more correct in choosing the brilliant attackman for the first All-Ivy unit. Watts had the highest number of assists not only in the league and New England, but the nation as well...