Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Right Is Wrong. Fact is that since the war, Japan's intellectuals have been gripped in a sort of reverse McCarthyism; no Japanese artist, poet, professor or painter dares to be labeled a "rightist." Most a're socialists, and they pride themselves on being "agin' the government." They companionably join Communists in a bewildering array of organizations with names like Youth and Student Struggle Council, Committee for Freedom of Expression, National Conference for Reopening of Japan-China Relations. They provide the intellectual leadership for such huge outfits as Nikkyoso, the 600,000-strong teachers union; Zengakuren...
...President and his whole system of delegating presidential power to subordinates at critical moments in the history of the nation." Added Columnist Walter Lippmann: "The damage to our prestige would be irreparable if we all rallied around the President and pretended to think that there was nothing seriously wrong ... It is the dissenters and the critics and the opposition who can restore the world's respect for American competence." Then Adlai Stevenson went...
Russian space scientists last week scored a new first of sorts. They admitted that something went wrong with one of their spacecraft...
Something must have gone wrong. The way to bring a satellite, manned or unmanned, down to the atmosphere is to fire a forward-pointing retrorocket to reduce its speed. If this is done properly, the satellite will curve down into the denser air, where it will be slowed further by friction. If the retrorocket is fired in the wrong direction, it will speed the satellite up and put it on an orbit with a higher apogee. The U.S. Air Force Discoverer satellite program has suffered from just such aiming errors...
Moss's record is his own monument. He has won most of the world's great motor races, many of them several times. He has been Britain's champion nine times. One of his regular rivals wryly acknowledges: "When I pass Moss, I wonder what is wrong with his car." Says his fellow British driver, Tony Brooks: "Driving over 200 miles on each of the world's circuits, Stirling would turn out quite a bit better than anyone else." Says Australia's skilled Jack Brabham: "He's the toughest competitor anybody can have...