Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one respect is the statement about lack of progress correct, and that is in describing the Turkish position. Whereas five years ago Turkey said next to nothing about Cyprus, the issue is now considered important enough for the Turkish foreign minister to make the trip to the UN this year to put forth his country's claim personally. It is hoped, however, that the Turks can be persuaded to see that their true interest lies in dropping their ridiculous claim for partition (even the British have ruled partition out as unfeasible) and instead of further exacerbating the situation...
There is, however, one impression I would like to correct: that the Cornell method gives the student a speaking knowledge of a language without any insight into the country's culture. In my elementary French class, the native drill instructors organized conversations around such subjects as French geography, French food and wine, French social life and mores, and that old standby, the French educational system...
...from overseas clients, got everything but the plane's landing gear. Relying on their study of other Red aircraft, Revell's engineers designed the Yak's landing gear as they figured the Russians would. Four months later, an official Soviet photo proved Revell's design correct...
What is worse is having the same symptoms as talent, the pain, the ugly swellings, the lot--but never knowing whether the diagnosis is correct. Do you think there may be some kind of euthanasia for that? Could you kill it by burying yourself here--for good? ...Would the warm, generous, honest-to-goodness animal lying at your side every night, with its honest-to-goodness love--would it make you forget...
After two weeks of deep-blue silence and dress-white evasion had failed to keep the wretched matter quiet, the U.S. Naval Academy brass harrumphed and admitted that the story in the Baltimore News-Post was "substantially correct." Gist: a bouncy, 17-year-old high school girl named Susan Johnson had arrayed herself in a midshipman's uniform, invaded the academy, stood formation, attended mess with 3,600 midshipmen, had gaily run down dormitory corridors popping into rooms (so another account ran) and made a clean getaway. First upshot: two midshipmen charged with helping her face dire punishment...