Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Chinese government reacted with moral lectures ("It is wrong to make a profit out of what is harmful to others") and threatened to ban the sale of rhubarb to Europeans, relying on the firmly held Chinese belief that all foreigners, and especially the English, would die of constipation if deprived of rhubarb's laxative qualities...
Police officers will of course continue to ticket bicycles and motor scooters for such offenses as riding or parking on sidewalks, not observing stop and go signals, passing on the right, and riding down one way streets in the wrong direction, McCarthy asserted. These violations, he noted, have continued despite the ticketing campaign begun a week...
...second pastoral letter was read, the choir of one Puerto Rican Church sang an Easter hymn, "Pardon, Pardon." The choir-mistress explained: if the people are wrong in voting for the governor, they need the pardon; if not, the priests need...
Last March, reading a full-page ad in the New York Times, L. (for Lester) B. Sullivan, 39, police commissioner of Montgomery, Ala., decided that the Times had done him wrong. Sullivan had not even been mentioned by name; the ad was an appeal for funds to defend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Negro leader, against charges of income-tax evasion. Nonetheless, Sullivan sued for libel, seeking $500,000 damages against the Times and four other defendants. Last week in Montgomery, a circuit court jury gave Lester Sullivan every dollar he asked...
...Martin dribbled in on the far left and fired a shot at Brown goalie Pete Gilson. Sweeney, in the midst of a gang-up near the goal, slipped in the mud but tipped the ball into the goal with a flat, slow-rolling shot. Gilson was caught on the wrong side of the crease...