Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...election eve in Louisiana, it seemed all wrong. "I've never seen another campaign this quiet," said Veteran Watcher John Gentilich, who runs the Marble Hall Bar & Restaurant across from New Orleans' city hall. As Uncle Earl had said, Russell was better educated and respected the other man's opinion. Maybe that was what took...
...last week, Potsdam's Communist Maerkische Volksstimme had expressed its outrage. One trouble: too many of the wrong people ("dusty figures from Potsdam's attic") had been present. "We hope," said the paper, "that in future those parts of the population will be invited that belong there: the working people who sincerely honor and understand the life and works of our great maestro...
...were most concerned about war and the threat of war. After careful word-weighing and the abstention of two members on pacifist grounds, the Committee produced a resolution on the Korean war. "An act of aggression has been committed . . . Armed attack as an instrument of national policy is wrong. We therefore commend the United Nations, an instrument of world order, for its prompt decision to meet this aggression, and for authorizing a police measure which every member nation should support...
...Distinction. MacArthur's action did not solve the basic problem of reporting the Korean war. As long as there was only "voluntary censorship," and no clearly defined set of security regulations, any correspondent might guess wrong on what he should report. What particularly irked the correspondents was that MacArthur's aides seemed to make no distinction between military security and military prestige. While no newsman wanted to report strictly military information that might aid and comfort the enemy, every honest newsman wanted to tell the story straight, even if the telling reflected on the prestige of U.S. arms...
...London, Conn.: "Print more . . . Let's have a story on the Bartenders' Christian Fellowship, or the revelation of a" Prostitutes' Christian Association . . . but not into Christian homes." Sighed Kenneth D. Barney of Scott City, Kans.: "The wishy-washy, lukewarm professed believers who insist movies are not wrong for Christians will now have a new argument." Henry Pucek of St. Louis, Mo. pointed to a recent magazine picture of Jane Russell in an "unChristian pose," and asked: "Is this the priesthood which Miss Russell feels that God has called...