Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...prophetic beginning for the week. The war news from Korea continued to be encouraging, but everywhere else the President looked, things seemed to be going wrong. Congress was bent on compelling him to lend money against his will to Franco, and was loading his war-powers bill with restrictions he didn't want. When Virginia's mild, inoffensive Senator Willis Robertson called about something else, the President stared at him with cold and glittering eyes and expressed his outrage at Congress in direct, unvarnished words...
...gadgets, spends nearly half of every hour logging their readings. Just figuring the miles-per-gallon on a 5,000-ft. climb keeps him scribbling for 20 minutes. "A man can just about keep up with his work if the flight is ideal and not a damn thing goes wrong," an engineer explained. "If anything slips it's a rat race all the way back to the base. What this thing needs is an engineer with four hands and five eyes...
Responsible & Wrong. In the tones of a tired Cassandra, Churchill said: "The supreme peril is in Europe. We must try to close the hideous gap on the European front...
Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of YPH, predicated that his group would go along with the Progressive Party and not with Wallace. "As for myself," he said, "I can't stick with Wallace's idea of my-country-right-or-wrong...
...things that make Montalban convincing in the role of a detective is that he is so often wrong. He tags the wrong man as the murderer from the start, and is only through the persistence of Harvard's "Professor McAdoo" that Justice triumphs. The Professor is played by a movie actor named Bruce Bennett, who, believe it or not, looks and talks like any number of youngish local scholars...