Word: wrongness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally, however, its casualty report was sent on to the Pentagon. The news story, not the Army postal stamp, had been wrong. Last week the Army dutifully sent the Carters a telegram officially informing them of their son's death...
...first trouble, reported Austria's Helene Stourzh-Anderle, is that housework is grossly underestimated: "Other members of the household often do not discover that there is a housewife until something goes wrong." Besides lack of appreciation, housewives the world over suffer from the repetitious monotony of their tasks. Britain's Dr. Dagmar C. Wilson found in a survey of 194 homemakers that 79% complained of tiredness, anxiety and depression...
...Wright was wrong, he decided on second thought. "The East," said he after he was told of the injunction, "is finished. Its best material went west. In the East the old ladies sit around knitting and waiting for the young to grow up and when they do they won't let them do anything . . . This is a disgrace and it will go on record as an indictment of this region of the United States." With that, Wright jammed his porkpie hat on his head and took off for Wisconsin...
Something was wrong with the way the Korean war was going. Since the commanders and troops had done well with what they had, it was not hard to trace the fault line back to the men who prescribe the pace of U.S. mobilization. The pace desperately needed to be stepped...
Director Henry (Lives of a Bengal Lancer) Hathaway is never able to overcome that handicap. Whenever the movie's fitful action promises to become as spectacular as its settings, his camera seems to be looking in the wrong direction. The ferocity of Mongol hordes, commanded by a leering Orson Welles, is neatly foreshadowed in scenes of a barbaric tournament. But when they pillage and burn Chinese cities, the picture has nothing to show for it but some lines of post-mortem dialogue and a pillar of fiery smoke on the far horizon. An oily merchant announces that...