Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wire tap evidence in their courts and only two explicitly forbid it. Here in Massachusetts, the Attorney General and district attorneys can authorize the tapping of any telephone for any reason, restrained only by their own sense of propriety. The legislature again has the opportunity to correct that situation by approving Senate Bill 42, which provides effective safeguards against arbitrary wire tapping...
...However, if someone in the House feels that it is terrifically important to five a closed dance that weekend, and can persuade the majority of the House that he is correct, that is all right with me," he continued...
...certain Western observers believed it was inevitable that Russia, the undisputed leader of world communism, and China, a potential rival of Russia for communist dominance, would split. These observers pointed to undeniable differences between the two countries, as well can persuade the majority of the House that he is correct, that is all right with me," he continued...
...wonderful experience. When Winston has finished, he turns round to Anthony and says, 'Would you care to say something?' ^Things go on . .. I make a few statesmanlike remarks . . . And when we have solved all the problems of the world . . . the communiqué will arrive. We will correct the grammar. Then Winston will say, 'I don't like the sense in which you have used that word.' . . . And then we all go home...
...theme of A World of Love thus seems to have two major tenets: 1) it is not correct to live in the past, to seal oneself from the exigencies and rhapsodies of the present; and 2) the way to extricate oneself from such decadence is to search for a positive and present love. Undoubtedly, this theme may have present and cosmic significance, but I do not believe it either necessary or possible to trace its symbolic overtones. Its nearly platitudinous magnitude defies any precise application to immediate world problems...