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Word: corrects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows, he may turn the more whole-minded of us to realizing that the "child is father of the man," and inspire us to acquaint ourselves with Freud's voluminous works to perhaps correct our "innocent bungling" so that we may not forever keep breeding disaster on the human race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...often-used Murray promotion gimmick, said FTC, was to call people on the phone, give them a simple "quiz" such as: "Name two Presidents of the U.S. besides Eisenhower who were once generals." For the correct answer, the Arthur Murray studios handed out "$25 in free lessons." But all too often, said FTC, the lucky winner found that he had to buy a complete course to collect his prize. FTC also rapped the "Lucky Buck" contest ("Check your dollar bills. If any of the serial numbers contains a 5 and 0 you've got a winner"), and objected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Watch Your Step | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

Guided at the airport by an unusually paternal President Charles de Gaulle, who towered a foot above him, the little visitor made his way down a 150-yard red carpet, past the lines of severely correct Frenchmen in cutaways. Then, standing on a carpet that had originally been woven for Napoleon's Josephine, he plunged into a round of handshakes in his now familiar manner-a quick look down for the hand, a look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: I Love Paris | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...nimbly as I can, this flack has hurried to correct your observation that Gambler Frank Costello bought the Hoffman touch [March 7]. Frank Costello never bought my touch-he sought my advice and got it for nothing. I have done as much for former Ambassador Joe Kennedy. I gave him free advice for Son Jack. "Get him a haircut," I advised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1960 | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...artery until it is caught at a narrow point, then shut off circulation to the tissues beyond. But last week two Georgetown University neurosurgeons reported that they had gone to a lot of trouble to make ultramodern emboli in the form of plastic pellets, and had used them to correct a brain defect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic in the Brain | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

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