Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elderly woman who arrived in Mount Sinai Hospital's emergency room having suffered a heart attack and battling pneumonia. A man and a woman hovered by her bedside, and the emergency staff assumed they were worried relatives. Then the man pulled out a yellow pad, asked for the correct spelling of Weisenseel's last name and identified himself as the family lawyer. "I kind of lost it that day, and I told him to get out," Weisenseel recalls. "That may have been the most distressing situation I've had in 22 years of practice...
...described Bogrov in the most realistic way, with every detail of his life, his family, his ideology and his behavior. I recognized his brother's interpretation of him as the most correct and convincing. In no way did I belittle the heroic impulse that moved him. I think that the application of the term anti-Semitic to August 1914 is an unscrupulous technique. I had earlier thought this was possible only in the Soviet Union. The book was not yet available because I had not released it, but people stated quite loudly that this was a disgusting, imperialist, revolting, loathsome...
...emphasized everyone's societal obligation to correct the nation's past wrongs. "None of us is islands unto ourselves. We are part of a society," he said. "We cannot pretend that history never happened...
...Reds play, stands on Pete Rose Way). But those opinions can be heard all over the country. In a TIME/CNN poll taken last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, only 30% of the 504 people questioned thought Rose should be suspended from baseball for life if the accusations are correct; 40% said he should be suspended for only one year; and 20% were against any suspension...
...surprising show of glasnost, General Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB, hurried to correct that impression. Yes, he told reporters in Moscow, Orlov was Souther, who first surfaced in the Soviet Union last July claiming that the FBI had been harassing him. "I lost my future," he said. But Souther acquired his Russian name only after he was granted asylum last year. What was news was that Souther, as Izvestia reported last week, had been spying for the Soviets "for a long time" and had acquired the rank of KGB major...