Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...there. It was a rough day. The 27th and elements of one other regiment were trying to hold the line until the marines arrived. Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis called for an air strike to relieve the pressure on his men. The U.S. planes came over, hit the wrong target, and had to be redirected. At this crucial moment Osborne glanced at Michaelis. He was standing, bareheaded, in the street by the radio truck, reading TIME...
Perhaps "preparing" is the wrong word. Yesterday's practice was a typical example of the rigorous schedule the jayvees go through. It started at 4 p.m. with the linemen working out against each other and the backfield having a ball-handling drill. After about an hour. Coach Norm Shepard yelled, "Okay!" The players put on their fiercest expressions and ran over to the varsity practice field, where they played defense against various teams until...
...lvez has run his government in a relaxed way since he succeeded ex-Dictator Tiburcio Carias 21 month ago. "We might not go very far," Gálvez once said, "but we won't go very far wrong, either." He has been getting along well with his neighbors in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, but Tegucigalpa buzzed this week with outspoken if undocumented suspicions that Guatemala might have financed the recent mischiefmaking. Last week, when the Guatemalan embassy requested safe conduct out of the country for the two Hondurans implicated in the plot, Gálvez smiled sweetly...
...float through his head. At one moment he remembers persuading Hemingway to fight a bull in Spain while Peirce stood by with his Kodak to record the scene for posterity: "Only it was a cow. He damn near got killed, and then I found out there was something wrong with the camera-no picture." At the next moment, his mind still running to Hemingway, he offers a literary pronouncement: "Four-letter words are all right when you're talking, but it's no good to put them in print . . . It would be better to do it with smoke...
...adapt himself to hunger, heat, cold, exhaustion or terror. Normally the mechanism is self-regulating (like a heating plant with a thermostat). But sometimes, Selye says, it gets out of kilter. Then the body either overdoes the job of adapting itself to stress, underdoes it, or simply does it wrong. What follows may be disease or even death. Doubtless this has always been true, but it seems to be happening oftener now that man has built himself a civilization which subjects his old-fashioned system to stresses & strains for which it was never designed...