Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bedraggled Familiarity. Official silence cannot, however, heal the sores laid raw by Corson. Because he is an insider, his strictures will galvanize critics of the war. To Corson, the pacification strategy of the Marines was correct, and victory in Viet Nam is being thwarted by the Army's blind reliance on hardware and explosives. Corson's chosen weapons are the type of security his tiny teams afforded, coupled with social justice and an attempt to free the peasant from both Saigon's tyranny and Viet Cong terror. "I don't want to see wars of national...
...just fine," chirped his wife Cathy, 25, and that was as proper a prognosis as any on the mettle of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 69, already striding about a day after surgery in which an electronic "pacemaker" was implanted in his upper chest to correct a slow heart rate. That speedy recovery was hardly a surprise to the residents of Bucks County, Pa. Just two days before his operation, Douglas had heartily outpaced 200 other huffing, puffing conservationists on a brisk, five-mile walk-in to protest the partial closing of the 140-year-old Delaware Canal...
Announcer: Now correct me if I'm wrong, Don. You never even pitched until you were a senior at Van Nuys High School, but you were only 19 when you came up to the Dodgers. Obviously you were a natural, but is there anything that helped you develop so quickly...
There is much youthful impatience in the search for instantaneous remedies to public and private ills. The unconventional student is inordinately sure that his own picture of the world is the correct one. He lacks the perspective necessary for self-criticism and for an appreciation of his opponent's position. Of course, there are also some who enjoy the notoriety and power offered by leadership of protest movements...
...psychologists and psychiatrists took pains to point out that they are not suggesting repression of emotions as a direct cause of cancer, but rather as a condition that may contribute to the development of the disease. If the theory proves correct, they suggest, some cancers could one day be thwarted by preventive psychotherapy...