Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed program is in part an attempt to correct a weakness in the present reserve system. Under the existing plan, draftees are required to remain in reserve status for a period of six years, following two years' service. However, under this law there is no provision for weekly drill participation. As a result, those participating are merely names in paper units...
...would like to correct a minor discrepancy: E.O.K.A. is not a "Communist terror group." The initials stand for the Greek words National Organization for Cypriot Freedom...
...make peace between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists in 1945-46, Truman declared, "Hurley and Wedemeyer led me to think that they believed" in the possibility of collaboration between Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists. Replied General Albert Wedemeyer, former U.S. commander in the China Theater: "This is not correct, speaking for myself...
...sure that there will come a moment when some of my critics will want to correct a shameful wrong," said McGinnis virtuously. "I have had to face an unusual share of basic operational problems . . . Nothing justified the unprincipled and unbridled venom from some quarters directed against...
...Gority is undoubtedly correct. Any industrial tycoon will tell you that as many deals are closed on the links as in Wall Street conference rooms; and probably more secret information has been communicated over the bridge table than in all the Top Secret meetings of the Pentagon...