Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper called upon the Administration to face ihe "harsh reality'' of Soviet progress: "If there have been faults in the organization of our missile program (see box opposite), or if arbitrary spending limits have been imposed, it is imperative that we correct them immediately and make a maximum effort." Said former U.S. Ambassador to Italy Glare Boothe Luce: the beep of the Soviet satellite "is an intercontinental outer-space raspberry to a decade of American pretensions that the American way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our material superiority...
...naturally pleased to read the piece on the study of American Literature at Harvard, by Richard N. Levy, which you ran on Friday, October 18. As far as I know, it is factually correct, as to dates, etc., though perhaps a bit indulgent in its judgment of personalities. I write this, however, to lament that Mr. Levy appears not to know the name of W. Ellery Sedgwick, who in the late 1930's was associated with Professor Matthiessen and me in the conduct of English 33. Both Matty and I learned as much from him as we did from...
Suhrawardy had held together for 13 months came apart at the seams and proved Suhrawardy's analysis painfully correct. The immediate dispute was a Republican Party proposal for breaking up the two-year-old province of West Pakistan into the divergent princely states and provinces that existed under the British. Suhrawardy opposed the change because it would involve a major change in the country's painfully achieved constitution. The Republicans, angered because they felt Suhrawardy's refusal would cost them votes in Pakistan's first general elections next year, walked out of his Cabinet...
...Vassar student also learns about "Fundies" (The Physical Education Department's attempt to correct Freshman protrusions"), a rather arbitrary though somewhat meaningless definition for Circle ("The symmetrical botanical garden located in front of Students"), and, most important of all, the reason for avoiding "Pro (academic):" "It means less overnights...
...service from London to Johannesburg last February, said Smallpeice, they were 19 months late, which held down BOAC's net profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot light" that automatically relights an engine if it goes out. Meanwhile, the same problems have held up the longer-range (5,000-mile) Britannia 310 series...