Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talking about President Truman's annual message to Congress on the State of the Union: His summary was correct. Standing in the congealed political atmosphere of the reassembled 80th Congress, Harry Truman had carefully spelled out in his dry, flat voice the Democratic campaign platform...
...latter explanation is correct and the prestige of the Council has sunk so low that it cannot attract sufficient manpower for its functions, the policy of appointment to the Student Council is no remedy. Not only is this policy entirely undemocratic, but it leaves such disgust in these not inclined to oligarchic philosophies that the prestige of the Student Council must inevitably suffer...
When the day came, the gallery, which had been empty for months, was jammed. Tojo walked to the stand with the correct aplomb of the model prisoner and the unearthly smugness of the samurai. His court-appointed lawyer, George Blewett of Philadelphia, started to read Tojo's 64,000-word affidavit, which Tojo had rewritten four times in one year. Tojo himself sat back calmly. Around his right middle finger was tied a piece of string-a reminder to himself, he explained later, to keep his quick temper in check. Among his fellow defendants there was a stir...
...circumstances, now that the matter has been brought to your attention we naturally assume that you will wish to correct the erroneous impression given by your article...
Konstantin Simonov, Russia's most successful literary handyman (three theaters were running his plays simultaneously in Moscow last month), recently wrote a novel that seemed to have all the correct ingredients. The Soviet hero returned home after two years in the U.S. to find Russia overwhelmingly more attractive. But the pontiffs weren't satisfied. Simonov's Smoke of the Fatherland, just out, was written off as "immature and unsound." The surprising reason: the Propaganda Committee of the Communist Patty said he hadn't proved his thesis...