Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...vast majority of inborn defects are now recognized as due to something that goes wrong in the environment of the fetus - in the womb. In most cases, the underlying cause is unknown. In a few cases, the direct cause is now clear, thanks to an Australian ophthalmologist...
Although their reasons for rejection of the Rockefeller plan were likely, I fear, to have been the wrong ones, it is just as well that they did so. Based on a vague misconstruction of Professor A.A. Berle, the plan was a half-baked, totally uninformed attempt to translate a hope that the European Common Market (and conceivably the Outer Seven Free Trade Area and the new Latin American Common Market also) achieve political unity through economic cooperation...
...Treasury, was his packet of certain votes so persistently gathered around the nation. And yet, with all the smell of victory in the air, the Kennedys were allowing for mischance, miscalculation-the sudden outbreak of an emotional riot, perhaps, that might start delegates stampeding in the wrong direction...
...Dryden quotation from Absalom and Achitophel goes on: Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; Was Everything by starts, and Nothing long; But, in the course oj one revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, Statesman, and Buffoon...
...forced to sell out to a West Coast moneyman. The paper passed from the control of a publisher who is also a businessman to that of a businessman who is only incidentally a publisher-the sort of change, the author clearly implies, that is responsible for much that is wrong with U.S. journalism...