Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...political intrigue. Britain has bartered the soul of a nation for a few pieces of silver. I say 'for shame' to Britain. One day these pieces of silver will bear interest in British blood, sweat and tears on the battleground of freedom. For that which is morally wrong can never be politically right...
...Wrong Foot. Near McAlester, Okla., Sid M. Puryear, employee at the naval ammunition depot, got a bad bruise when a crate containing 1,900 pairs of safety shoes fell on his foot...
...four months, tall, boyish-looking George London, 29, had become the rage of Vienna. Ever since he had first loosed his wide-ranged voice as Amonasro in A'ida, it seemed he could do no wrong. He had sung his first Mephistopheles in Faust, his first Escamillo in Carmen, his first Prince Galitsky in Prince Igor to bravos from the galleries and raves from the critics. When he sang the four baritone roles of Lindorf, Coppelius, Dappertutto and Doctor Miracle in Tales of Hoffman, there was a ten-minute ovation. Cracked one Austrian, as two Red army officers walked...
...Madison Square Garden last week the St. John's basketball team did everything wrong but shoot at its own basket. For a topflight team, their ball handling was wretched, their close-in shooting slovenly. With 45 seconds to play and St. John's three points behind, all that Utah had to do to score an upset victory was to freeze the ball until time ran out. Then prosperity went to Utah's head...
...already ebbing. With hard words for business, which was charged with failing to live up to its promise to lick inflation by production, President Truman talked of Government-financed steel plants, demanded $4 billion more in taxes and stand-by controls. Before long, he knew that he was wrong...