Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the balloting, National Affairs Editor Otto Fuerbringer made some calculations and announced that Dewey ought to get 434 votes on the first ballot. Dewey did. Adding up his information for the second ballot, Fuerbringer came out with 509 Dewey votes. He was six short of the correct total and is inclined to send stern letters to the delegates who crossed...
...always scrupulously correct when white folks were around. But when with his own people, he liked to whoop it up. Wherever he went, he was followed by cronies-who admired him and split up what money there was in his wallet if it was lying around handy. Joe didn't mind. He never quibbled about a few hundred dollars; he never ducked an opponent. He has defended his title 25 times (more than any champion before him) and scored 22 knockouts...
...allowance, 2) that McGrath had roused the President's ire by intimating that he needed a political wet nurse, and 3) that the White House secretariat, which considers the National Committee a bunch of grubbing ward heelers, had persuaded the President to dump them. But whatever theory was correct, Republicans were surer than ever that the Democratic Party was falling apart...
...N.A.S.P. erred. The correct answer is "deprive," because it takes the prepositions "of" or "from," while the other words in the group take "to" or "with...
...epithets about the "bipartisan war coalition" and the "reactionary, imperialist essence of the Marshall Plan," the resolution declared that, as soon as the war ended, the Communist Party had "boldly proclaimed the need ... for a new people's party." The resolution added modestly: "Because of its correct line, the Party was able to carry on effective mass work and make significant contributions ... to the forging of the new political alignment and people's coalition...