Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guarantees of repatriation of profits and assurances that the capital itself could be repatriated. Some critics argued that the breaks were too big. Menzies' answer is that the benign investment climate has encouraged so many businessmen to reinvest that 25% of Australia's national income is plowed right back into new expansion...
Died. Maximilian Adelbert Baer, 50, perpetually clowning prizefighter who won 66 out of 80 fights (51 knockouts) by haphazard training and a walloping right, delighted in knocking out Nazi Germany's prize sportsman Max Schmeling in 1933, won the world's heavyweight championship from Primo Camera in 1934 but lost it a year later to James J. Braddock, went to Hollywood where in movies, radio and TV he capitalized on his fighting career; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...William James and John Dewey, no less than for Nikita Khrushchev, truth is apt to be just a matter of whose ox is gored. Britain's logical positivists, who believe that philosophy can never reach beyond semantics, are engaged in the self-devouring enterprise of proving their right to say less and less about fewer and fewer things...
America the Vincible couches its philippics in an aphoristic style of baroque density, alliteratively peppered with Peter Piperisms, e.g., "Many myths thus made the marvelous mirage." But its basic message is simple and fervent: the U.S. must think its way through to the right answers, for "our nation lives under no benign dispensation from such tragedy as has tormented and broken empires of past ages...
...spokesman for the Red Chinese Foreign Ministry said the State Department "reversed right and wrong and falsely accused other people...