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Word: wrongness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...understandably serious problem to the Irish-but should it be allowed to split the two principal allies in the cold war? Ireland's Prime Minister John Costello applauded Fogarty heartily and said a few statesmanlike words about "free peoples of the world" and England's "great wrong." Somebody fired off a bomb in Belfast (a small one which only injured one policeman). But a great many earnest U.S. citizens shredded their morning news papers into confetti and shouted to their wives that Congress had finally gone completely nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fogarty's Dream Boat | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...knew it meant something ominous when I walked out that gate," said Tom Vamplew, a chubby little gear and axle inspector at the Lynch Road plant. "I felt it was gonna be tough-the weather was wrong for a strike. Last one we had in 1948 was a picnic compared to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Slow Siege | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Einstein complains, no one has proved him right, and no one has proved him wrong. The theoretical physicists, he says, act as if gravitational effects did not exist: "I do not believe that it is justifiable to ask, 'What would physics look like without gravitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lost Passion | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

McCarthy hustled his alleged "57 card-carrying Communists" out of sight (after naming not a single one), and declared: "I am willing to stand or fall on this one. If I am shown to be wrong on this, I think the subcommittee would be justified in not taking my other cases too seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Stand or Fall | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...work. Her only reply to Mrs. Simon's anxious questions in sign-language was: "Jack kaput, Prowska kaput" and the quick gesture of a finger drawn across her throat. From time to time Prowska's hands became paralyzed. Said the doctor: "There is nothing physically wrong with her, but she is scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Rhymes with Spy | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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