Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposition even trickier. Their pilots cannot make a so-so approach and depend on last-minute power adjustments to keep them from overshooting or undershooting the runway. They must fly "by the numbers"-at precise letdown speeds, with their wing flaps set precisely right and their noses at the correct angle. Once a 150-ton jet is committed to land, it must follow a very narrow "slot of forgiveness," never deviating appreciably as it approaches the runway...
...Says one Post-Dispatchman: 'We're harder to read, we're long as hell, and sometimes we're not as bright as we should be. But a serious reader has to see the Post-Dispatch to know what's going on." True enough, but an old Globeman is equally correct in saying: "This is a brutal fight. The Globe is moving up fast. Amberg's hungry. The P-D's still a hell of a paper, but not like it used to be. Pulitzer's not hungry and never has been...
Looking back, most of his associates date his emergence as a bona fide liberal-and probably as a presidential aspirant-to the years 1955-56. His serious 1954 operation to correct a wartime back injury-double fusion of spinal discs, with complications from Addison's disease-brought Kennedy to the brink of death; last rites of the Catholic Church were pronounced. In the long months of convalescence, he had opportunity to contemplate his political fu ture. (Wife Jacqueline Kennedy rejects the theory that this was his moment of political truth: "That way you can sort...
Grasping the logic of these symbols, says Moore, the child next begins typing simple stories from film strips, later talks his own stories into a tape recorder and types them as well. About all the teacher does is correct punctuation with as little overt "teaching" as possible...
...that it is a decisive factor that voters are embarrassed to discuss? Or does it simply mean that people are tired of hearing about the whole thing and will vote as they please without paying the slightest attention to religion? One tends to hope that the latter interpretation is correct, but fears that the former is more likely...