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Word: wrongfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...seems to me wrong to make a tendentious translation in order to support a social movement or to avoid offending some readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 29, 1980 | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...need of rescue, and no plea for French military help had come from a legitimate government. "We are just spectators," said a French spokesman. More pointedly, the Paris daily Le Monde called the invasion "a serious defeat for Paris," adding that "the French government was visibly caught on the wrong foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHAD: One for Gaddafi | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

Psychiatrists believe that the best clue to what went wrong in Chapman's head is his signing of Lennon's name in the logbook last October. That act, they say, may indicate that he was losing what little remained of an obviously fragile sense of identity. "He had a superidentification with Lennon, but he was also in competition with him," says Manhattan Psychiatrist David Abrahamsen, who examined David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer. "His murder of Lennon was a substitution for his own suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Lethal Delusion | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...pronounced himself "thoroughly disgusted" by what he considered Pittman's racial bias and called for an "overhauling" of the judiciary. Shrugging off Adams' death as "just an unfortunate incident," he declared, "My fellow comrades and I are still at a loss as to what we did wrong." In parting, he offered this self-justification: "I am my leader's taskman, and to be a taskman, at times you have to be a bit radical and perhaps a bit unconventional." On the evidence, Edgar Tekere is certainly both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE: Ironic Justice | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Room of Their Own | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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