Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a nation whose G.N.P. is approaching $800 billion can simultaneously fight a war in Viet Nam and advance his Great Society at home. "We are going to have a better America," he recently told some associates. "We've made mistakes, of course, but we are determined to correct them. We're proud of our programs, and we're going to keep improving them. If any of you think I'm going to make the kids in the Head Start program, the poor, the undereducated, sit at the second table, you're crazy...
...wish to correct any misconception that might be engendered by the opening paragraphs of your article of December 21 on chemical and biological warfare...
...parked under a tall tamarind tree, and he backed it off the sidewalk onto the street. "I heard a dragging noise when I first started to back up," he recalled later, "and I knew right then it was probably a mine or plastique." The doctor's diagnosis was correct. An explosion ripped a two-foot hole through the front seat. Dan escaped with light shrapnel wounds in his legs, but the force of the blast killed two pedestrians near by and wounded three others...
...obvious irregularities, many composers trust him so implicitly that they tell him to do the patchwork. In one instance, when Arnstein was confronted with a low F for the violins-it just does not exist on that instrument-he juggled the music for the entire string section to correct it. "Few composers," says he, "know much about the technicalities of copying," and he can lecture for hours on the proper method of indicating the duration of a glissando. "Arnie," says Composer Ned Rorem, "has an aural...
...letters from Joyce's rakehell father have all the style and fresh idiom of Simon Dedalus in the book. And Molly Bloom's long, affirmative soliloquy comes to life in the letters of his wife, Nora-artless, rambling and totally innocent of punctuation, syntax or correct spelling...