Word: recheck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editorial boards to recheck each word must be expanded...
...last week set up a coin-operated salesman in his front window. By inserting a quarter in it, an off-hour window shopper can verbally order any item on display, have his name, address and phone number recorded on a tape inside. Next morning, store clerks transcribe the tape, recheck with customers by phone, and send out the orders. Kilgore, who plans to manufacture and lease the gadget, already has more than 300 orders for it from other stores...
...week's end, the pollsters themselves were still trying to figure out how they had come such croppers. Roper, confessing that he "could not have been more wrong," asked a group of social scientists to check over all his pre-election data for clues. Gallup started to recheck his pre-election polls; his field workers were re-interviewing the same people to find out how they had actually voted...
...professional journalist . . . must disappear." So must most sports news. So must big display ads, a hangover from prewar days "when capitalists tried to gain the favor of the newspapers." Papers should expand their editorial boards to check and recheck "each fact, each sentence, each word, before it is printed." Who would appoint the checkers seemed to go without saying...
...Paris, a truck-driving G.I. read a Stars & Stripes headline: STIMSON SAYS HE'LL RECHECK TO SEE IF THE ARMY CAN BE CUT. Muttered the soldier: "He goddam better...