Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff, also seems correct when he says, "I see less change in him than in any political figure I have ever known. He has a set of values, and everything stems from those values...
...make sure that no one followed in Logan's faulty footsteps, McCurdy appointed twelve j.v. runners to "Logan's Legion," positioning them at various points along the race to steer the runners in the correct direction...
...seems to have taken a wild swing at Descartes's Cogito, ergo sum when he came up with Televiso, ergo sum -"I am televised, therefore I am." Since "I am televised" is in the passive voice, his Latin verb, derived from video, videre, demands the same form. The correct version of his attractive thought would therefore be Televideor, ergo...
...comment by the West German foreign ministry expert that "the Polish cavalry fought German Panzers with drawn sabers during World War II" [Sept. 1] compels me to correct a myth. While it is true that the Poles had a great deal of cavalry, they never charged German tanks...
...student at Oxford, Waugh referred confidently to "the biography" that would some day be written about him. He was, of course, correct, and the facts of his life are now well known. The events of three years determined almost all that was to follow. The publication of Decline and Fall in 1928 made him famous, the darling of "the bright young people" who danced and staggered through postwar England. The next year, his wife Evelyn ("She-Evelyn" to friends) left him for another man. Waugh wrote his parents: "I am afraid that this will be a blow...