Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hour later, with the plane still missing, a westbound pilot called. Something had gone wrong with the radio range, he said: he was hearing the "A" signal where he should be getting an "N." Salt Lake City airmen suspected Trip 16's fate before she was found, at noon, smashed against Bountiful Peak at 6,500 feet, 15 miles northeast of the field. All hands were dead-the two pilots, the stewardess, seven passengers...
Meanwhile sharp-faced Cinemartist Disney just crossed his fingers. Said he: "Art is never conscious. Things that have lived were seldom planned that way. If you follow that line, you're on the wrong track. We don't even let the word 'art' be used around the studio. If anyone begins to get arty, we knock them down. What we strive for is entertainment...
...poll takers of the nation were on trial and knew it. Four years ago, the practice of taking straw votes went out with a crash. The greatest of all straw polls, the Literary Digest's, took 2,376,523 straw votes by mail, and not only backed the wrong candidate but erred by 19% on the popular vote. It was a catastrophe to the Digest. It also left most of the pollsters who sprang up in the Digest's wake trembling in their boots for fear the Digest's fate might overtake them...
...rttemberg, whose father, Duke Albrecht, was a Field Marshal of World War I fame. Father Odo's mission was said to be to sell the U. S. on Hitler's plan for a united Christian Europe and the conquest of pagan Russia. Two things were wrong with this story: 1) Father Odo was exiled by the Nazis seven years ago; 2) instead of persuading U. S. bigwigs, he stayed quietly at a Benedictine church in The Bronx...
Hill, who played for the Crimson in place of its captain, persisted in running the wrong way whenever he got the ball. His persistence gave him the honor of being high scorer, with 21 safeties or 42 points...