Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson compares the menopause to diabetes, arguing that both are deficiency diseases. His own efforts to correct woman's menopausal deficiency began in the 1920s. At first he had only crude hormone extracts, which had to be injected. Now there is a plethora of estrogens and of the other sex hormones, progestins and androgens. Most of them are at least partly synthetic, and they can be taken easily by mouth. A couple of years ago, a patient who had kept on taking the birth-control pill Enovid after her menopause gave Dr. Wilson a new insight: the pill-which...
...chimpanzees, Dr. Gajdusek reports in Nature, seems essentially the same as kuru in man, except that the animals could not suffer impairment of speech or bouts of maniacal laughter. This evidence, plus data from a similar disease of sheep, called scrapie, strongly suggests that the virus theory is correct. In any case, the ability to reproduce such a disease in animals should aid neurological research...
Programmers therefore give the machine a dictionary of words that can be more than one part of speech. For all such words, the computer flashes the choices on a screen. A trained observer points to the correct choice in that context with a special "light pen" and the computer eradicates all other choices...
...Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, Brown's rival for the Democratic nomination, both seized the opportunity to fault the Governor for keeping the tip from Los Angeles officials. In fact, Negro leaders have repeatedly warned that Watts would erupt again unless a major effort was mounted to correct its social and economic problems...
...that sin, Castro stripped Almeijeiras of his rank and booted him out of the government, the military and the Central Committee, giving him a chance to correct himself "by beginning his revolutionary life as he did the first time, without any position whatever." That way Almeijeiras may return to the social fold "a simple man and revolutionary" purged of his "illegal and vicious" ways. And the other playboys? "Nothing is going to happen to them," Castro assured. "We will send them to a hospital to be cured, and if they are crazy, to the insane asylum...