Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pleased when one day a white woman walked into the health-office laboratory to have a bottle of milk examined. "Is nobody here?" she asked of Tom, who was alone in the lab. "Madam, something is wrong with your eyes," replied Mboya. Stomping out, the woman huffed: "I must have my work done by Europeans. This boy is very rude...
...members were with the Ford Foundation's Omni bus, founded their own firm three years ago when Ford pulled out, ran the show successfully for NBC. This season, NBC decided that the spate of specials would make the program obsolete. Rarely has a network been so wrong. Last week No. 1 Associate Robert Saudek quietly released the news that Omnibus will return to the air next season...
...began reviewing plays for the Hollywood Reporter, seldom wasted words. Samples: Strange Fruit-"a lemon"; Billion Dollar Baby-"inflation." When one Broadway producer complained that Hoffman was physically unqualified for his job because he "can't see," Hoffman squinted agreeably and said, "Yes, but there's nothing wrong with my nose...
...other hand, a great many wives could not polish them off better if they tried." Dr. Hutchin, 49, married and father of three, is a general practitioner in Hatfield, 18 miles north of London. He chides the wife who is forever disagreeing with her husband. "He may be wrong, he probably is, but why do you have to tell him? Men like to think they know best. Why not let them think it? It is not a very high price to pay for peace and security and good health...
...want me to name in one sentence what is wrong with the modern world," began Russian-born Author Rand in her still noticeable accent, "I will say that never before has the world been clamoring so desperately for answers to crucial problems-and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the belief that no answers are possible." To paraphrase the Bible, the modern attitude is: "Forgive me, Father, for I know not what I'm doing-and please don't tell...