Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Japanese bridled. "If the British take Japan for a sucker," warned Asahi in the wrong national idiom, "they will find it is their own necks they are stretching out." Two more Britons were arrested. Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma rejected the British protest. The Cabinet issued its program, which revolved around a new but strangely reminiscent phrase: Greater East Asia (incorporating Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies, possibly Burma, in Japan's sphere of action). Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka warned: "The Japanese Government is through with toadying...
...between Movieman Goldwyn and his United Artists co-stockholders), he has also been working on a scheme to make shorts to be exhibited in vending machines (TIME, March 4). Meantime he has moved from his Beverly Hills house-awf-swimming pool to a modest apartment on the other and wrong side of town, now keeps no servants, drives his own car. Says Jimmy: "Joe Kennedy* once told me, 'There are only two pursuits that get in your blood-politics and the motion-picture business...
Finding vegetables one food category in which England can be self-sufficient, British food experts recommended a war diet long on vegetables, short on meat. Snorted Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw, 84: "There is nothing wrong with the official meatless and eggless ration, which is virtually my own diet. I cannot, however, guarantee that England will become a nation of Bernard Shaws on it. That would be too much to hope...
...United States desires to contribute to re-establish continuity in world commerce, it must abandon the wrong method of wanting at the same time to be both the greatest creditor nation and the greatest export country...
...material of war is steel; and the U. S., with some 81,000,000 ingots a year, has about half the world's steelmaking capacity. No foreseeable peacetime boom is likely to strain it. But for purposes of war, U. S. steel capacity is mostly of the wrong kind. Of its enormous furnace power, 90% is open-hearth, for run-of-the-mill steel. Only 2% is in electric furnaces, which are hotter, can be more precisely controlled, turn out steel ingots of the finest grade. Many an aircraft part, the guts of internal combustion engines, light armor plate...