Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Even on the flight from Port-AuPrince, Coak amazed reporters with his powers of divination. He prognosticated that the ceiling at Idlewild Airport would be 800 feet, which turned out to be wrong by only a yard and a half...
...engines for the nonstop flight to Mexico City, 430 mountain-studded miles to the southeast. Guzmán tested his flaps and rudder, then gave his DC-3 the gun and soared up into the chill, starry night. At 12,000 feet he seemed to feel something wrong. "It didn't feel like anything serious," he later explained, "but there was a vibration somewhere in the back and the controls didn't feel just right." The temperature outside was a few degrees above freezing. Pilot Guzmán had been out for half an hour; he radioed Torre...
Speaking at Western Reserve University, David Lilienthal, onetime boss of the Atomic Energy Commission, decried scaremongering, but conceded that "any person who wants to live a peaceful, quiet, uneventful life has just picked the wrong time to live...
Most psychiatrists hold that the way to treat the minor mental ills classified as psychoneuroses* is by mental means alone. The University of Illinois' Dr. Ladislas Joseph Meduna has now published an outspoken dissenting opinion. Psychoneuroses, he declares, are caused by something wrong in the physical working of the brain's nerve cells and can be cured by physical means...
There is fascination and topical interest in Napoleon's hodgepodge. Back of every chapter lies the self-portrait of a dictator who, like his successors of the present century, made the so-called "logic" of a situation his only criterion of right & wrong. His smug account of an episode during his conquest of Italy...