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Word: correctional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson Considers Plan to Diminish Time in Service | 2/3/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Vicarious Atonement | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Finis McGinnis | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

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