Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story on Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper (TIME, July 5), we used the term "whittledycut" and defined it as meaning a real fine horse race. This created a lively ruckus in Kentucky and elsewhere, with readers writing in to challenge the definition (it was correct); others commented on folk slang in general and enclosed clippings from newspapers about TIME'S mention of the word. Every week readers have their say on subjects ranging from National Affairs all through the sections of the magazine. Currently we are welcoming readers' nominations in our annual project of selecting...
Every week the mail brings scores of letters to the editors of TIME. Their postmarks constitute a veritable gazetteer of the world. The letters them selves ask questions, make suggestions, correct errors, argue judgments, give added facts about the news that the readers see in TIME...
...West Germany, Der Alte responded with furious energy and biting tongue. He whistle-stopped through Bavaria and Hesse, speaking from the back platform of his train. His object: to correct what he called "strange confusions" and "curious unclarity...
...Viet Minh are correct," says one of these millions, a onetime Viet Minh official who deserted to the West. "They don't violate women. They take nothing. If they borrow a cup of water today, they return it tomorrow. But they watch you. They watch you all the time. They watch what you do. They know what you eat, how much you spend every day on meat and vegetables, whether you have a servant, or want...
...Little by little, in careful ways, they correct you so that you may lead a more worthy proletarian life. You learn to dress shabbily in drab colors, like the others, and to put your children to work. If you do not, your taxes are raised. You learn to be enthusiastic. If you are not, they will whisper from mouth to mouth in your village that you want to be rich, that you are a reactionary. They will threaten you with public discussion. They will isolate you: you will find that your neighbors will not dare speak to you. If this...