Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...planning and policy are not so much wrong as incomplete . . . From appeasement, we have reached the uneasy turning point of containment. But containment . . . cannot be a stable equilibrium. From containment, we must either drop back to appeasement, a deal (or what would seem to be a deal), or go forward to the offensive [aiming at] destruction of the power of Soviet-based Communism...
...famed Model T, would be merely transportation. Most automakers think it doesn't, and that car buyers prefer to pay more to keep up with the Joneses and get more room and some chrome-spangled luxury with their transportation. K-F hopes to prove that other motormakers are wrong, when it starts mass production of its new car in June...
...trouble was that Merrill Lynch* was set up to do a big chain-store brokerage business, and that, for half the year, the stock market had been only as busy as a corner grocery. What was wrong, said Directing Partner Charles Edward Merrill, was that "Americans spent more than $9 billion last year for new automobiles, and yet were willing to invest only $580 million of new money for industry by the purchase of common stocks . . . People . . . did not invest because they did not know enough about [stocks], or because they thought the risk was too great...
Joyously, Asiak complied by combing her hair with a fish spine and rubbing melted blubber all over her face. But the Eskimos still had the visiting anthropologist wrong. When Ernenek showed signs of leaving and Asiak made signs of seduction, the visitor dived for the tunnel. Enraged Hunter Ernenek hauled him back by the seat of his pants. "How dare you so insult a man?" roared Ernenek, and bashed out the anthropologist's brains...
...only thing wrong with "Cinderella" is that it devotes too much time to the activities of the mice. Versatile fellows though they may be, they are super-imposed on the original fairytale, and prolong the picture somewhat. But this is only a minor fault, since most of the time the mice are entertaining...