Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...TIME figguhed wrong...
...Kefauver's supporters expected Taylor to beat him, in the stirred-up atmosphere of sit-ins and Negro demands for more equality. Only a few days before the primary, the Scripps-Howard Memphis Commercial Appeal, pro-Taylor, made a survey, predicted Taylor would win. The prediction was wildly wrong: on primary day, Kefauver buried Taylor in a 2-to-1 landslide...
...strong Democratic platform plank on civil rights was not going to hurt them seriously, at least in the middle states. Added a pleased and triumphant Estes Kefauver: "It is clear that the detractors of the South, who tried to say we are a backward people, have been proven wrong...
...dismayed by the costume adopted by some of my fellow students who are continuing their regular studies here at the summer session. I can understand that those visiting us from other areas, students from colleges of a different tradition, unacquainted with our way of life, see nothing wrong with shorts, sandals, and sports shirts. But Harvard men (much less Harvardmen) should know better. I call upon my brethren to return to the ways of old. Let us distinguish ourselves from the surrounding mass, with some outward sign of our inward grace. Let our sisters of Radcliffe repent their evilly unclad...
...last week, the stock market is little more than a numbers game of profits and dividends. In a sampling of 2,000 U.S. stockholders, the organization discovered that 51% did not know a single product made by any company in which they owned stock. Another 6% guessed-and guessed wrong, e.g., credited Bell & Howell with making aircraft, General Motors with gasoline, and Swift with trucks. Some 55% could not name a single president of the companies they invested in, although 82% claimed to have read the annual reports of every firm in their portfolios...