Word: correct
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Africanism as a political base, Guinea is seen as a dangerous nation to Portuguese interests in Guinea-Bissau. Further implications of the attack upon Guinea are that Portugal eventually seeks to control Guinea as well as Guinea-Bissau because both states are exceptionally wealthy and that as a politically correct and politically advancing state, Guinea will make a dangerous neighbor if Portugal could retain control of Guinea-Bissau in that their positions are diametrically opposed...
...think children have proved you to be correct. Sesame Street isn't just for underprivileged three and four-year-olds. It's for anyone who is ready to learn or hasn't already learned the concepts that Sesame Street has to teach. It is indeed a very special gift for a child...
...errors involve mistaken dates of decades ago. Khrushchev remembers dinners hosted by Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda, which he dates at a time when she had already died. Crankshaw and Translator-Editor Strobe Talbott state in the forthcoming book that Khrushchev confused some facts. They debated whether to correct him, says Talbott, but decided to "allow him to speak in his own words," even when he was "telescoping events"; in some cases, they point out errors in footnotes...
...learns, for example, how the German banking family of Fugger played a major role in handling the moneys of the indulgence traffic and thus in provoking Luther's confrontation with Rome. In fact, suggests Friedenthal, "it would be as correct to speak of the age of Fugger as the age of Luther." There are other instructive asides: though Luther could more than hold his own in Latin debate, he could hardly add simple sums. In other respects, his wisdom was commonsense, not classic, the product of roadside conversations on his walking trips through Germany. At home, he deferred...
...uniform." After cinching the Rose Bowl bid, Stanford lost its final two games -a letdown that the players regretted because "it might hurt Jim in the Heisman voting." It did not. Historically, Heisman winners have not fared well in the pros. But that is one trend Plunkett aims to correct: "I would like to start playing immediately," he says. "I don't want to come up to the pros and sit on the bench. You can't win there...