Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heated and forceful remarks have rough the issue to the attention of the Harvard community," Pottinger said, and now less deeply committed people should work to correct the problems...
...find some gristle or a piece of meat you cannot swallow, don't spit it out on your plate . . . Place it on the prongs of your fork, then place it on the rim of your plate. Don't let this embarrass you. It is perfectly correct...
...also, gently but firmly, correct a few other items: I have never "spoken out" against any bishop of the church; my theology is much better than the condensed and out-of-context quotes at the end of the article would indicate; and never have I been a "Yankee-hater"-even though my mother's grandfather happens to have been a Texan...
...with Frances Somebody-or-Other, she hardly seemed fazed to discover that Frances was really Francis-and that there had been no handholding. But her friends stand by her: when she prematurely published the claim that a certain actress was pregnant, the actress' husband hastened to prove her correct...
Vanishing American. Despite such slips, Lolly's habitual double-checking usually ensures that the kernel at the heart of the item is correct-though the details may be a little mixed. In rumor-ridden Hollywood she is respected for refusing to print a rumor if she gets a flat denial-a courtesy that not all columnists can afford. She usually punishes those who offend her by keeping them out of her column rather than lambasting them in it. But her wrath, when aroused, has always been formidable. When Producer Nunnally Johnson outraged her dignity, Lolly vented her spleen...