Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...think. . . that the people of the world and particularly our own American people are strong and sound in heart. We have been late in meeting danger, but not too late. We have been wrong but not basically wicked...
...Quick Whitewash. Only one thing went wrong: Impellitteri filed for mayor. Followed by a handful of Tammany district leaders who hoped to run the Tiger as they pleased if he won, Impy wrote out his own bill of divorcement from the Democratic machine, gave himself a quick whitewash and bounded onstage gleaming like the driven snow and shouting that he was an Independent. To Tammany's horror, the acting mayor began getting applause, particularly after he took advantage of the Brooklyn gambling scandal (TIME, Oct. 9) to appoint big, reassuring Tom Murphy, the Alger Hiss prosecutor, as police commissioner...
There is nothing wrong with gambling, said a report released by the Social and Industrial Commission of the Church of England's Assembly, as long as it's all in fun. But "whenever it ceases to be an amusement, it becomes indefensible, and indeed dangerous." To those who hold that gambling "is a pursuit unworthy of Christian attention," the report retorted that "it would be presumptuous and impertinent to lay down detailed rules for a Christian's use of his leisure...
...into effect in a time of inflation, has involved a good deal of boondoggling, and is not Democratic property anyway. The Republican candidate says his party planned to build new roads to replace the horrors of the past, and that Dever merely carried out those plans--at the wrong time...
...thing stands out in these three confused races. The personalities of the candidates, and not the party principles, are the all-important issue to the voters. Observers will be wrong if they judge the results of these contests as a mandate for or against the Democratic Far Eastern policy and Fair Deal...