Word: wrongly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the backstairs conniving of some of his friends had become embarrassingly public, President Truman's official expression did not change a whit. His look indicated that he didn't smell a thing wrong. He was his usual blithe self, having a good time making proclamations, rewarding deserving Democrats, and entertaining a gardenful of pretty girls...
Minister Mesta was a little late getting to her post. When her Packard-borne party (with a luggage-laden Ford in the vanguard) motored from Paris to the border, they were stopped cold by strangely hostile frontier guards. After lengthy palaver, it appeared that Mrs. Mesta had picked the wrong country: the frontier she tried to cross was not Luxembourg's, but Belgium's. Two miles away an official welcoming committee was waiting, all set with flowers and speeches. By the time the party finally found little Luxembourg, the welcoming committee had become discouraged and gone home...
...Wrong." The home-towners aren't the only ones who keep solicitous tabs on Musial. Two weeks ago in Chicago, Third Baseman Tom Glaviano of the Cardinals said to Stan at breakfast: "I prayed for you last night. I got down on my knees and prayed." Impressed, Musial said he didn't realize Glaviano thought that much of him. "Don't get me wrong," explained Glaviano, "I was thinking what I could do with all that World Series dough...
...task force of staffers to whip up equally lurid blurbs. When her turn came, Columnist Mildred Miller offered readers an enticing sample of the Weekly's wares-stories about female chastity ("Voltaire has declared [it] man's greatest invention"), birth control ("Motherhood in many cases is a wrong against society"), and religion ("After 2,000 years of religious teachings our jails are crowded beyond capacity...
Frail, timid William de Littlehampton was born in the wrong century and spent a lot of his time wishing he hadn't been born at all. Richard the Lion Heart was England's dashing monarch and knighthood was in flower; but at 20, Willie sat his horse like a sack of meal, rattled in his 12th Century armor like an ill-packed skeleton and couldn't get out of the way of his own lance and sword...