Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...jury of South Korea's voters pivoted around two men, one the Vice President and the other Vice President-elect. As personalities, neither could be characterized as a strong man. But as symbols of what is right and wrong in South Korea, they could not have been better chosen...
...whites, the physical wounds were light-amounting to some 30 injured policemen. Out in the wine-growing flatlands of Cape province or in the sheep-raising Karoo plateau, where the small villages are dominated by steeples of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Nationalist farmers had scarcely noticed anything wrong. At one vineyard, an Afrikaner shrugged: "Maybe the city people have trouble with their natives, but ours are satisfied. We treat them well, give them six tots of wine a day. and keep them peaceful. What have we to worry about?" Another saw Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's escape from...
...envy. At the very start of its first article the Post lifted an eyebrow at the fact that Reporter Kilgallen covered New York's 1957 welcome to Queen Elizabeth from "the lonely splendor" of a limousine in the official procession up Broadway. (Says Dorothy: "What's wrong with that? I rented a limousine, and some darling generals and police captains were nice enough to let my car swing into line with the procession.") "At 47," said the Post, ungallantly adding a year to Dorothy's age, "Dorothy Kilgallen is sitting on the horns of a moral dilemma...
...item reporting that a missing U.S. flyer named Douglas Corrigan had been sighted off the Irish Coast. Reutlinger promptly put in transatlantic phone calls to all three of Ireland's major airports, kept all three lines open until Corrigan landed at Dublin and took the call. "Fly the wrong way?" prompted Reutlinger, mindful that Corrigan, before taking off from New York, had given Los Angeles as his destination. "I sure did," said the fellow who soon became famous as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. "Stick to that," advised Reutlinger. "It's the best story...
...bullets still lodged in the head of its Prime Minister, with its black citizens still smoldering with sullen anger, with a shocked world still crying its condemnation, South Africa incredibly seemed to have learned nothing from its fortnight of revolt. Far from recognizing that something was drastically wrong, the ruling Nationalists, who are mostly Afrikaners, closed ranks. The official opposition, the United Party, which speaks for most of the English-speaking population, offered some minor quibbles but made clear that it stood shoulder to shoulder with the Nationalists in their efforts to put down the rioters and preserve white privilege...