Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Allison sticks to his guns. "Students, of all people, should be exposed to a broad range of perspectives. Not to hear any counterarguments is wrong," he says. "But simply to distrup...you're within your rights to ask questions, even to have a short argument. But you're not within your rights to shout and scream...
...hopes some of the experience will spill over to help next year's squad, expresses the opinion of the entire entourage when he says the trip was memorable for the basketball but above all for the cultural experience. "Let's just say that the only thing that went wrong was that the airline showed the same movie on the flight home as it did on the flight going over there," he adds...
...naturally carry a lot of original ideas of how to run the world. Like all people, they are products of their environment, harboring folklore from parents, favorite uncles, teachers, and books they have read. Some of it is fresh and good. Much of it is half-baked, naive and wrong...
...states, including New York and California. Says Joseph Buckley, who heads the Chicago office of John E. Reid and Associates, one of the nation's leading testing firms: "Like an X ray, a polygraph records data that take a lot of expertise to interpret. In the wrong hands, it's worse than nothing...
...book is littered with grammatical outrage and wrong usage. "After completing high school in 1949, his sister wrote that she had arranged for him an appointment to Annapolis." It is of course the brother, not the sister, who completed high school in 1949. The same type of mistake sprouts throughout the text; one must finally conclude that the author does not know what a dangling modifier...