Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clinton now sorry that he put on airs? And will voters give him a second term in Little Rock? Clinton insists that he has reformed. "I was too inflexible," he concedes. "This is a very personal state that requires a high level of accessibility. I'm ready to correct past mistakes...
...would guess, if Naso is indeed correct, that the Columbia football team is ready to win. He says that before you win, you've got to learn how to lose. And at Columbia, it is no longer a question of learning...
...President admitted. But the way to get a grip on the "slippery" deficit, he declared, was to raise revenues. It is "the price we have had to pay" to get more spending cuts through Congress. Reagan placed the blame on past Administrations, declaring, "If I could correct 40 years of fiscal irresponsibility in one year, I'd go back to show business as a magician. You know, that might be more fun, pulling rabbits out of a hat than jackasses out of the way in Washington...
...know that a moirologist is a professional mourner, that an anthracomancer tells fortunes by means of burning coals, and that a mumpsimus is someone who refuses to correct an error (this last being derived from a 16th century priest who kept using that word when reciting the Mass even though he had been repeatedly told that he was supposed to say sumpsimus). But how many people are aware that pizzlesprung is a Kentucky word to describe the weary, or that nutation is the wobble in the earth's axis caused by the pull of the moon? Who remembers that...
...going too slowly, he can tuck up tighter and complete the third somer sault faster." The quadruple, by contrast, allows no such mid-course adjustment; once the flyer has released the bar and tucked himself up for the first of four turns, he is spinning too fast to correct himself. The burden of timing rests with the catcher. If any changes are to be made, he must make them, matching his swing to the human projectile hurtling toward...