Word: wrongly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Huie is entirely right about his book; TIME was dead wrong. 2) In a letter to the Reader's Digest, Admiral Denfeld's office took exception to 26 points (some of them labeled "major misstatements") in Huie's first Digest article. 3) Collier's found "no basis" for six statements in Huie's football article. It printed an apology: "A serious injustice [to] the University of Alabama ... we sincerely regret its publication." 4) Both the FBI and Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, said they were satisfied with...
...operated strictly within the letter of the law. Refurbished and approved in April by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the Commando was actually flying 500 pounds under its gross weight limit, 45,000 pounds. In Puerto Rico last week, there was agitation to tighten up the regulations: obviously something was wrong when 116 lives were lost in two years...
...when players come to him for help his blue eyes light up. Says one mate: "He's the kind of guy, you give him a watch and he'll take it apart and put it back together, and then write the watchmaker telling him what's wrong with...
Back in 1929, the twelve cars that were running at the finish of Indianapolis' famed 500-mile Memorial Day race were powered by eight-cylinder engines. But the engineering specialists who design racing autos reasoned that with fewer moving parts, fewer things could go wrong with an engine. Last week, the twelve cars that finished the furious grind at Indianapolis-at speeds up to a record-breaking 121 m.p.h.-were all four-cylinder jobs...
...wedding he was so far reduced that he fitted satisfactorily a cutaway that he had bought 20 years before; so confused that he started the wedding march on the wrong foot; and so dazed that he became hypnotized by the expression of the minister's nostrils and muffed his only line in the service. He spent part of the reception chasing stray dogs out of the house, and unlocking bumpers and directing traffic in the improvised parking lot behind the house...