Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because it had fabricated a story, the Daily Mail's charges rocked the ailing New York newspaper. Daly was summoned to New York and questioned for more than three hours on Friday by News Editor Michael O'Neill and others. He insisted that his story was "essentially correct," according to O'Neill, but admitted using a false name for the soldier, a practice he said he had followed numerous times in the past. When Daly could not substantiate his story, O'Neill, the president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, asked for his resignation. Daly...
...overwhelming feeling that...we're just pawns in this fucking thing, throwing the shit at each other." These soldiers seem to distinguish something about Vietnam that set it apart from other wars. Unfortunately, they don't explain what it is. So we must be tantalized by the idea (probably correct, I think) that the ugliness of Vietnam was unique for those who fought it. The answer (if there is one) to the question of what made Vietnam different may not be answerable in a work of non-fiction; perhaps it requires a leap of imagination not within the reach...
...participant in the Vietnam panel held on 23 April. I wish to correct certain erroneous impressions your readers are certain to receive from the rather garbled account which appears in the Crimson (April...
Inside the cockpit, the 50-year-old commander, with glasses specially fitted into his helmet to correct the farsightedness of middle age, took over the controls for the final critical maneuvers. Expertly, the veteran pilot guided his craft through a long, easy turn. When he completed the maneuver, the ship was lined up perfectly with a runway marked in the ancient, arid bed of Rogers Dry Lake six miles away. "Right on the money, right on the money!" encouraged Mission Control...
...dropped slightly. Plunging earthward, Columbia was falling at an angle about seven times steeper than a normal airliner's descent and was traveling half again as fast. Powerful as it had been on takeoff, the ship was now functioning as a 102-ton glider with no engine to correct its course...