Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...exposure may prove to British males what French impresarios have long known: there has never been anything wrong with the basic British face and figure, only with its proper display...
...sits. A broom or brush with a long handle, which can be used while a person is standing, is far more effective and less tiring. All over the world these standing brooms are used. Why then do we carry on with a primitive method which is inefficient and psychologically wrong? Bending down to sweep in this way encourages subservience in mind...
Last week the Chrysler Corp. knew how a car owner feels when everything goes wrong with his new car at once. The rattles began with the forced resignation of President William C. Newburg (TIME, July u), who was discovered to have owned interests in Press Products Inc. and the Bonan Corp., both Chrysler suppliers. The rattles show no sign of going away. Company auditors were investigating just about everyone in Chrysler's top echelon in search of financial links to Chrysler's suppliers. Irate stockholders, spurred on by the poorest first-half earnings of the big three automakers...
Exception to Innocence. Whenever a woman bears a malformed child, she tortures herself with the questions, "Is it my fault? What did I do wrong?" In most cases, nothing. The one clear exception to the rule of maternal innocence is syphilis. Its spirochetes do not attack the fetus until relatively late in its development. If syphilis is diagnosed early in pregnancy, intensive treatment with penicillin can give the mother's unborn child almost sure protection...
...wrote praising editorials; dozens of strangers phoned to congratulate her. One sympathetic Manchester school board member estimated that 200 other bright youngsters missed the honor roll at Manchester High this year for the same reason Charlene did: low physical education grades. "This is a symptom of what's wrong with our school system," said the board member. "We're not rewarding academic achievement. We're rewarding the best 'wellrounded' samplers." But other board members seemed content to leave the problem to a committee, which took it up several months ago after one parent complained...