Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...commenting on the performance of public-opinion polls in the election, TIME (Nov. 21) said: "Only Veteran Elmo Roper, who reported on election eve that Nixon looked to squeeze ahead by two percentage points, chose the wrong winner...
...that the race was too volatile and too close to permit a prediction-with 4% of the eligible voters undecided up to the very end. Kennedy's margin of one-tenth of i% of the two-party vote does not seem to us to make that prediction "wrong." We do indeed feel good about the closeness of our measurement-only 1.1% off the mark. In our business, one inch to the right of the bull's eye is as accurate as one inch to the left, and in a close election, one is as good as the other...
...Look, man, I ain't no punk, you know! . . ." Suddenly, Pete crashed his fist down on the table: "All right, you guys, you've been yakking for half an hour! Willy, look! This guy already told you he made a mistake. They admit they done something wrong. Will you accept?" "No. man," said Willy. "I told you one of our boys got hurt." Cried a Turban: "We ain't punks! You don't accept it that way. we burn-that...
Melman found several things wrong with this "deterrent system." First, he maintained, military equality will not prevent war, because both sides are ready to fire at the slightest suspicion that the other is planning an attack...
Everybody ran in the wrong event and generally had one hell of a good time last night at Briggs Cage, but it didn't make each difference. The varsity track team, with coach Bill McCurdy experimenting mildly, downed M.I.T...