Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...methods. The reform means the transition to policy that conforms to the Soviet Union's present possibilities. By abolishing the economic councils and setting up ministries for separate industries, the Soviet Union envisages not the "tightening of the planning bureaucracy" but a scientific approach to planned management, more correct use of the money and commodity mechanism natural to socialism at the very outset...
...only fifty days before Christmas, the nation's bookies have made one of their rare catastrophic errors on today's Ivy point spreads. Yale has been installed a 13-point favorite over Penn, which is patently ridiculous. Our Ivy prognostications this season have been 76 per cent correct, and we will stake our life savings that Yale doesn't win by more than one touchdown...
...coup, called Subandrio's bluff, demanded proof of any CIA backing for the strongly nationalist newspapers that the army has allowed to publish. After a bugle-blowing mob of 3,000 Moslem youths demonstrated in front of the Foreign Ministry, Subandrio backed down. "I wish to correct my speech," the once cocky diplomat allowed. Headlined an army daily: SUBANDRIO REFUTES HIMSELF...
...fortified with postprandial coffee and cigars, talked late into the night in a secluded forest home outside the Belgian capital. Thanks to their agreement, said EEC Commission President Walter Hallstein, "the Community is alive." The sole French reaction in public: Foreign Minister Couve de Murville's cool and correct acknowledgement that the invitation to rejoin the EEC meetings had been received...
...years before the Revolution, Sir Joshua Reynolds had seen Copley's Boy with Squirrel in London, had it hung at the Society of Artists without knowing the painter's correct name. Copley's contemporary, Pennsylvania-born Benjamin West, living in London since 1763, urged him to visit Europe's art treasures and learn to eliminate his too "liny" look. Not until the eve of the Revolution did Copley, accused of being a Tory sympathizer, dare risk ocean passage. He left behind him three houses and 20 acres on Beacon Hill. Copley never returned to America...