Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homeless derelict from the Viennese melting pot" a normally absurd figure. Many were repelled by "this face that looked like an advertisement for a shaving lotion; this emptiness with the avid, frightened eyes; this sometimes slinking, sometimes hopping, never naturally moving form with its narrow shoulders [and] ridiculously correct suit"; this man who exhorted them "with all the semi-education of his age," using "miserable German . . . defective logic . . . tasteless humor . . . false pathos," and subjected them to "alternate whining and brutality...
...Naval Chaplains Robert D. Workman, "who is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and who . . . has set out to produce a chaplaincy corps in the Navy which is streamlined according to his own ideas. . . . This information is brought with the one desire of helping to correct the condition, and that we shall have a man at the head of the chaplains of the Navy who stands squarely by the Bible...
There is an old theatrical tradition to the effect that a bad dress rehearsal means a good opening performance. If this adage proves correct, the Radcliffe idler's presentation of "Guest in the House" tonight at the Agassiz. Theatre should be very, very good, for the dress rehearsal was very, very...
...inexcusable" waste. The committee admitted that the Army might be partially forgiven a mis take during the frenzied months after Pearl Harbor. But what the Committee could not condone, nor ask the U.S. to dismiss lightly, was the stubborn brass-hattery which had refused, time & time again, to correct, or even to admit the original blunder. The Army had been amply warned...
Navy spokesmen last week tried to correct the impression at home that Tarawa's cost had been too high (TIME...