Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet, ten-minute exercise full of odd sonorities. The orchestra plays them both cleanly, with notable purity of tone. The Sessions symphony was taken at a faster tempo than the composer intended, Watanabe recalls, and when Sessions heard of it he cabled, urging that they stick to the "correct tempo." Instead, Watanabe forwarded the tapes and got a second cable from Sessions: "I surrender...
...story of how his fellow Presidium members nearly deposed him in the 1957 leadership showdown. Said Khrushchev, as the jaws of listening comrades dropped: "Bulganin, my friend for more than 20 years, told me: 'We are seven against your four.' I replied that this may be mathematically correct, but in politics things are different. Although in mathematics two plus two are four, this does not apply...
...each weight is reported to a computer that works out the missile's speed and direction. The computer has been told in advance what course the missile should follow to hit a selected target. If the actual course and speed deviate from this course, the computer makes corrections. When the missile has reached the correct top speed, the computer cuts off the rocket fuel. An error of one foot per second at this point means a miss one mile from the target...
...gustus Eisenhower I may lose his trousers." In a third-grade Havana classroom last week, when the teacher asked what happened on Feb. 15, 1898. a tiny girl shot back the answer: "The United States blew up the Maine so they could intervene in Cuba." The rest of the "correct" answer: "And most of the crew members were Negroes...
Only later did Waldseemüller learn that in 1492 another navigator named Columbus had preceded Vespucci to the West. Waldseemüller tried to correct his error, but the misnomer stuck. His maps, one of them a rendition of the globe in twelve elliptical segments, became rare treasures for antiquarians...