Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that color, or use this or that fork, i.e., social insecurity. I have always said "I ain't." The only incorrection is to use the form in other persons: that is, you ain't. Dull people will always speak in a dull manner, whether it is correct...
...people who think "Well, that's all we've got time for" is wrong, I would venture a more modest statement: even regarding "got" as perfectly correct and respectable, consideration of the brevity of one's span of life inclines one to observe that most of us simply haven't (omit "got" please) time for such wasteful locutions. I'd rather be wrong than redundant...
Patriotism In. Last week conservative old (70) Education Minister To Matsunaga was in the midst of an all-out campaign to correct the faults of the occupation-planted system. Said he: "Twenty million schoolchildren taking the compulsory education course in primary and junior high schools know no Japanese history and are taught no morals. My primary aim is to implant patriotic sentiments in schoolchildren's hearts." The J.T.U. promptly protested that "Matsunaga wants to march the children back to the dark, feudal past." Even the anti-Communist Japan Federation of Teachers' Unions (20,000 members) warned against "reactionary...
...waving parades through largely deserted streets, it became apparent that the Khrushchev party had not come to Berlin to offer any dazzling scheme for German reunification that might sway West Germany's election against Chancellor Adenauer next month. Quite the contrary. After toasting Old Stalinist Ulbricht's "correct" leadership, Khrushchev told the stooge East German Parliament: "Adenauer's policy of strength may be the path he chooses, but it is full of danger. Hitler also followed a policy of strength, and we know where he ended." Khrushchev made it plain that Russia is quite satisfied with...
...Sunday news section came off the press last week, a Page One box proclaimed: YOU CAN GET CASH BECAUSE WE ERRED. Underneath, the News admitted that the map in that day's magazine section was all wrong, offered the reader who sent in the "largest number of correct corrections" a $50 award. Total number of replies, 1,014, largest number of corrections offered...