Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...called the police. Two weeks later, his wife Dawn was under arrest for adultery. Like a modern-day Hester Prynne, Dawn was soon the talk of the town, Norwich, Conn., a circumstance that does not dismay her husband. "People in this society need to hear that adultery is wrong and that it destroys families," he proclaims. "I believe in the institution of marriage." His wife's lawyer is less enthused. "The thoughtless and insensitive act by Mr. Jakubowski has caused enormous embarrassment and humiliation to all members of his family," she says...
...security people turned out to be wrong. The Americans caught us in the act of installing the missiles. In spite of all the uproar, we pushed ahead. When we began shipping the nuclear warheads, I constantly feared they would capture our ships. But they didn't. We installed the 42 missiles...
...much. The sculptures were sitting in your space. So might you stand back and take in the general effect? But there was no general effect: the pieces were too small to produce one. Shapiro's little sculptures conspired to make you feel you were looking down the wrong end of a telescope at something right next to you, seeing it very sharply, very densely and puzzlingly far away...
...There may be a few people who are totalrecluses who don't get anything from the term billfee," Rauch said. "Others are deliberately andrather obnoxiously riding on the rest of Harvardstudents. It strikes me as wrong for them to say,'Well, if I don't pay for them, somebody elsewill...
Readers learn about 'Pi', a game in which students take turns reciting the infinite digits of the irrational number, taking a swig of alcohol each time they are wrong. But since Harvard students are never wrong, according to the book, students playing the game just sit around sober...