Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Wrong Man. Williams blurted: "You have the wrong man, buddy." For almost four hours after that the cops held Williams incommunicado, paraded in people who had been victims of sexual exhibitionists to see if they could identify...
Then, as he was driving home from work, a traffic cop arrested him, hauled him to the station. At first, the cops told Williams that there was something wrong with his automobile registration. "Then," said Williams, "I looked over my shoulder and a girl was standing there, looking me up and down." Finally, a police sergeant told Williams that the girl and one of her friends, both 14, had positively identified him as the man who had exposed his person to them a short time before his arrest...
...condition of the family-where it lived or how much money it made--in not of much consequence in making boys delinquent. What really turned them the wrong way were fathers whose discipline was too strict or too lax, parents who did not pay much attention to the boy or how his leisure time was spent, the Glueeka said...
Occasionally he succeeds in drawing a chuckle, such as: "Although this structure (Khufu's Great Pyramid) failed as a tomb, it is one of the wonders of the world even today because it is the largest thing ever built for the wrong reason...
With this, Stassen gave Stalin the back of his hand for several long paragraphs, making it clear that Stassen had been right and the Premier dead wrong on a variety of subjects which they had discussed in the Kremlin. He recalled that Stalin had announced that the U.S.S.R. wanted world peace. "I find it impossible," he wrote, "to reconcile that statement with the North Korean aggression...