Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Bill Benton had put on a presentation that seemed to impress the Senate. But the U.S. was beginning to understand that U.S. troubles abroad have not come from a deficiency of clever commercials ; they have come from a deficiency of right action, from wrong action or from no action at all. U.S. words, like everybody else's, would always be interpreted against the background of U.S. deeds...
...suppose I smiled. At any rate, Marshal Stalin turned to me and observed: 'You are smiling and I know why you are smiling. You think that if we are victorious, I shall not know when to stop. You are wrong. I shall know...
...Wrong Time of Day. But the Kremlin (so many of the Western experts think) just could not believe that the U.S. could be so stupid as to let Formosa fall. They believed the Washington statements on Korea, but they suspected a trap in the bland way the U.S. had informed the world that it would not help Chiang Kai-shek defend Formosa...
...more than money is involved. For too long, the Record points out, presidents, trustees and donors have restricted architects to traditional forms. "What is wrong about such a practice, in American college buildings. . . is not so much the dead, level, heavy sameness of the results. . . It is the fear of advance, the denial of inquisitiveness which they express...
...South and an unmistakable talent for reporting the impact of human passion on the spectators' dull, ordered lives. All that keeps him from writing a really first-class novel is an unfortunate tendency to borrow overmuch from the verbal mannerisms of Neighbor William Faulkner. But there is nothing wrong with Novelist Foote that a little more literary independence cannot cure...