Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thank you for your delightful description of George Tucker, the one-man team from Puerto Rico [Feb. 20]. It is a pleasure to read about an amateur athlete at Sarajevo who embodies the correct meaning of the word amateur and who approaches the Olympics with joy rather than grim determination. George Tucker, you are my hero...
...vanishing point. He was born in Ottawa, Kans., in 1936. Some years ago, curiously, his official biographies began listing the year as 1937; when reporters pointed out the discrepancy, Hart restored the lost year. "I never felt it was an obligation of mine," he says, "to go out and correct it." More curiously still, he was christened Gary Hartpence; in the late 1950s the family dropped the second syllable of its surname. Hart, he says, had been the original, 18th century family name. His parents "decided to go ahead and do it. Lee [his wife] and I agreed...
...extremely serious that USIA counsel Thomas E. Harvey threw out the damning evidence of the blacklist, and more serious still that Wick accepted his assurance that the action was "both legally proper and taken in order to correct improper management practices involved in the selection of speakers." Destroying government documents, especially when they're real activities undertaken during the '50s (one hopes) is not management practice, it is governmental malpractice. Wick reportedly knew the lists had been destroyed--a fact which makes the entire process still more heinous. All against the backdrop of continuing revelations of Wick's nation-wide...
...flyer expressed opposition to a "virtual monopoly of political thought and discussion...achieved by the left wing of the students and faculty" at Harvard. There is no point in my taking the time or your space to consider this fantasy in all its aspects. But I do want to correct in public one libelous error about...
...chooses the correct combination of numbers for each week's lottery, the prize is added to the following week's pot. This week's amount has accumulated for several weeks...