Word: correctible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first time, Peking has publicly praised the Philippine Communist Party and lauded the rebellious Huks as valiant and correct revolutionary fighters. In Indonesia, China is trying to reorganize the decimated Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.), utilizing what is left of the Chinese population after last year's massacre. It has long aided the guerrillas in Thailand's northeast, recently drew neutralist Prince Sihanouk's ire for attempting the same thing in Cambodia. And the Chinese have continued, of course, to supply the Pathet Lao guerrillas of Laos with arms, aid and propaganda backing...
Salmon, described as "a small man, unmistakably Scotch, a man of very quick temper," soon had all the commissions he could handle. The Boston Daily Advertiser praised him because "his views are always correct, seeming like the present reality of the thing represented." His literalness appealed to Boston's practical Yankees, and until 1840, when he dropped from sight, his client roster included virtually every merchant family in Boston...
...civil defense turned on whether to print 200 secret copies of the report or only two. Proponents of the report figured that if President Eisenhower rejected the findings, one of the 200 "secret" copies would surely be leaked to the press, carrying the battle to the public. They were correct: the larger printing was made, the President did not accept the report, and within days the Washington Post had published the gist...
...bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first impression, was "a cowboy songster"; T. S. Eliot was "a Prufrock who would 'dare' all right 'to eat a peach'-provided he was quite sure that he possessed the correct European table-technique for that ticklish operation...
Somerville school children cross their hearts and swear that their teachers correct papers by tossing them down a staircase, picking them up in the order of their fall, and then marking them according to their bulk. Even if the summer issue of the Harvard Lampoon were graded by Somerville standards, it would surely fail. But no one grades the Lampoon, for during the past year or so (with one or two exceptions) its quality has been remarkably consistent: light in weight, with more gravity than levity...