Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before the 1952 campaign began in earnest, Democrats from Harry Truman down were saying that foreign policy should not be an issue. That attitude was based on the contention that the Administration's policy is 100% correct, and that to argue about it would give aid to the Communists. Last week the Democrats' dream of silence about foreign policy lay shattered and broken...
...cause" of the collision, said the admirals, completely absolving the Wasp's Captain Burnham C. McCaffree of all fault. They advanced three theories to explain Tierney's disastrous maneuver: 1) he had become "completely confused," and thought that a sharp left turn would bring him to his correct position; 2) he ordered "left rudder" when he meant to say "right rudder"; 3) he thought he was on the blacked-out Wasp's right bow when actually he was on her left...
...adviser to wartime Food Minister Lord Woolton he had developed an emergency meal for the bombed-out called blitz soup, and later a predigested food for starved survivors of Hitler's prison camps. A quiet, modest but convivial man, Sir Jack (he refused to be known by his correct Christian names: John Cecil) had once collaborated with a government scientific worker in a book about English food, then married her. The child was their daughter, aged 10. The Drummonds had left England late in July, motoring through France in their Hillman station wagon, sometimes staying at hotels, sometimes camping...
Tritium has a half-life of 12½ years, i.e., half its radioactivity is dissipated in that time. "If our calculations are correct," says Chemist Libby, "then water 12½ years old should be only half as radioactive as new rainwater or snow...
...found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...