Word: incorrectly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language of the King James version was pruned away to make easier reading-a feat comparable to "taking apart Westminster Abbey to make Disneyland out of the fragments." Similarly, the Third Edition of Webster's International Dictionary discarded the label "erroneous" for misuse of a word, sanctions any incorrect usage as long as it is common. It calls like, for example, a synonym for as, citing as authority Art Linkletter on a TV program. Writes Macdonald: "It is felt that it is snobbish to insist on making discriminations-the very word has acquired a Jim Crow flavor...
...been worrying about"; says the CIAman cleverly, "it looks as though we've really got something." There is even room to mention a minor Russian official in Washington named Georgi Bolshakov, who is duped by his own bosses so that he can pass along to Kennedy the incorrect information that "those things" are strictly defensive...
Disclosures such as this, correct or incorrect, could soon stifle the free flow of advice and opinion within the government. Although the press must inform the public of what is going on in Washington, National Security Council meetings should be free from its probes. No high government official can do his job if his private advice to the President becomes public information. In the Stevenson case, President Kennedy was obligated to keep secret the advice given him, rather than to open State Department, White House and CIA sources to Alsop and Bartlett...
...Kennedy Administration's economists made some extravagantly incorrect predictions about the course of the U.S. economy for 1962, but they were right on the nose with their forecasts for housing. A year ago, the Administration predicted that urban starts of new houses and apartment units would rise about 9% during 1962, to a total of some 1,400,000. Last week's report from the Commerce Department strongly indicates that the final total will hit that mark...
Your editorial "Harvard and the NSA" which appeared on November 10, 1963 stated: "The Leverett House Committee has recommended that college delegates to the annual Congresses of the United States National Student Association be elected by campus-wide referendum." This statement is incorrect. The resolution, passed by the House Committee and submitted to the HCUA said...