Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...went so fast-he kept putti"? on the gas instead of the brake, and couldn't figure out what he was doing wrong. We were all terribly frightened, but it was fun." When Pat was 13 her mother died, and Pat became the homemaker for her father and brothers. (The Bender children had grown up and moved away.) During the harvest, she worked in the fields with her family and the hired hands, then headed back to the kitchen to cook. "I learned fast," she remembers. "I'd bake a half-dozen pies at a time...
Mikoyan's mustached smile turned to an angry frown as he laid down the Communist view of history. The Red government of Rakosi, he said, did many wrong things and came into opposition with the Hungarian people; then reactionaries and villainous Americans started the revolution. And when Budapest asked the Soviet Union for help, it responded, because "of course, we help our friends." As for the "Hungarian students here in Oslo, I would only say that their hands are stained with blood...
...holds seven honorary and one earned doctorate degrees), actual experience in teaching. At an educators' conference several years ago, when one speaker tried to fob off some phony statistics on teacher-student ratios, the assembled reporters not only challenged them but were able to show where he was wrong...
...Wrong Vein. In Tulsa, Okla., the Red Cross dismantled a billboard showing Mayor James L. Maxwell donating blood, with the caption: "Maxwell-Good to the Last Drop...
...Each partner must accept responsibility in humility and penitence for what his group has done, and is doing, to foster and perpetuate division. "Many Roman Catholics today are saying that the perpetuation of the divisions of Christendom is not simply due to Protestant wrongheadedness, but also due to the wrong kind of Catholic intransigence. Protestants should acknowledge that for centuries the Protestant tendency was to divide Christendom . . . and that if the ecumenical movement is revising this trend, it is still building on the wreckage of three centuries...