Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Jack Kennedy had figured the West Virginia odds at 60-40-against himself. His odds were right; he had just predicted the wrong winner. When the final returns were in, he had swept West Virginia by 220,000 votes to Hubert Humphrey...
...rounded a gentle curve near St. Cloud race track, where his thoroughbreds had often been led to the winner's circle, a small, beat-up Simca came around the bend on the wrong side of the road. The collision flung Aly forward, and he was killed almost instantly by a broken neck (Bettina and the chauffeur were unhurt). Aly died as he would probably have wanted to: at the wheel of a low-slung car with a beautiful woman beside...
...Bolshevik faded away. Pleading ill health, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 79, resigned as head of state at the Supreme Soviet's closing session. Premier Khrushchev praised and decorated Stalin's old companion-in-arms, then kissed him on both cheeks. But the aged President had been on the wrong side of the 1957 leadership fight, and Khrushchev had not forgotten...
...Frontier once pleaded that its check was as good as anyone's. "No check is good," replied the Colonel, his eyes soft as ball bearings. "Some are pretty good, but they got an atom-bomb testing place out there in the desert. What if some feller pressed the wrong button...
...they are not so unlike the old men. Although there is greater freedom of opportunity in Britain than before-a bright but poor man like Lewis Eliot (or C. P. Snow) can make it on brains alone-there is fully as much snobbery in the corridors of power. The wrong word, the wrong wife, the wrong attitude can be fatal-and there are many failures and near failures loitering in the corridors to prove it. But the successes dominate the scene, and they provide a fascinating contrast with most U.S. novels about organization life: they do not feel guilty about...