Word: incorrection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Karam Singh's marathon interrogation began at 4 in the morning. He was asked to narrate the entire incident, but when he came to the point where the Chinese ambushers opened fire, the senior officer present "became wild and shouted back that it was incorrect, and that I must confess the Indians fired first." Singh at first refused. The Chinese threatened to shoot him, and "ultimately, they made me say that I could not judge at that time as to who fired first." After twelve hours of nearly continuous questioning, Karam Singh "was almost frozen and mentally and physically...
...aides, because they had protested the use of troops in labor battalions. Into the chief of staff's post went General Lo Jui-ching (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), bloody-minded former boss of the secret police, who could be depended upon to ferret out any more "incorrect thinking" among the military...
...centered on the following passage in Schlesinger's Crisis of the Old Order: "In May 1920, following the murder of a paymaster in South Braintree, Massachusetts, Brockton police picked up two Italians in an automobile filled with the innocent and febrile literature of anarchistic propoganda." This passage is factually incorrect, said Montgomery, and designed to make Sacco and Vanzetti appear the martyr-victims of a purge murder by the "Old Order...
...claims that it exists by divine right. Unfortunately, the unenlightened masses have demonstrated their ignorance by refusing to pay taxes. Since the Council does not have coercive powers, it must seek its funds elsewhere, but it seems to me that the Council's new solution for raising funds is incorrect. Begging money hardly becomes the superiority that the Student Council asserts for itself...
Such a program must be very carefully worked out to avoid ambiguity and to escape incorrect but justifiable answers. For example in number three, the words heat and are necessary to make heat impossible for the answer. It is probably harder to compose such a program than it is to cover the same material in a textbook passage. The machine material must be clear and self-contained, because the machine is the only source, and cannot clarify itself as a teacher...