Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the increased accessibility of written materials, the recent "opening up" of Soviet Russia has enabled Western scholars to visit the country, to establish contacts at Russian universities and to confirm or correct their previous impressions. The first step in this process, came in 1956 with the 30-day tourist visa. Fainsod made his first visit to the U.S.S.R. in that year and has returned several times since. Almost every person connected with the Center has been to Russia at least once in the last three years...
Strangely, the parking ban suggests that somehow the scooters parked on Mill Street between Mather and McKinlock do not disturb the peaceful silence of the evening. Present plans do not, but should, correct the annoying scooter noise in this area...
...answers ("Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Happy, pause-the grouchy one-Grumpy-Doc -pause-the bashful one!"). Snodgrass enjoyed winning so much that when he was instructed to fall before the mighty mind of Hank Bloomgarden (who later went on to win $98,500), he crossed up Twenty One, blurted the correct answer. After that show, Associate Producer Albert Freedman hustled up to him and protested "in tears" that Snodgrass "had thrown the budget out of whack...
...others. They read as though the poet had chosen his theme, the depiction of a certain impotence, a certain deficiency in communication, and attacked it again and again, rapidly, realizing each time that his attempt has been unsuccessful but not caring to return and to correct, moving on immediately for the next abortive try. He puts together various dissimilar images, which obviously connect in his own mind, but which the reader is likely to find too personal to understand. And, above all, the words when read aloud do not make pleasing sounds. The poetry is by fits markish and over...
...prosperous European nations with big stocks of gold and short-term dollar assets (see chart) no longer "have any balance-of-payments justification for discriminatory restrictions." Unless Europe cooperates by eliminating such restrictions, Anderson hinted, the U.S. may have to take action-perhaps a cut in foreign aid-to correct the balance...