Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...well did the trip go? McLaughlin put it this way yesterday: "Let's just say that the only thing that went wrong was that the airline showed the same movies on the flight home as it did on the flight going over there...
Congress could shake up the bureaucracy, says Peters, but it has too much of a stake in the status quo. "The more bureaucrats do wrong to the public," writes Peters, "the more favors Congressmen can do for their constituents as they right the wrongs-or as they appear to try to right them." They may not actually help, but they can always denounce the offending bureaucrat on the floor of Congress and then send a copy of their remarks to their constituents...
...sense of humanity and cooperation among the local people. Relief workers watched recently as adult men snatched chunks of meat out of the mouths of children gathered around the bony carcass of a freshly slaughtered cow. Says a missionary: "This is a microcosm of everything that can go wrong in Africa: no food, no security, no medicine. And it can only get worse...
Rosanne, 26, was in the seventh month of her first pregnancy when things began to go wrong. The baby's head was far down in the uterus, apparently ready to begin a premature journey to the outside world. Admitted to the hospital for observation, Rosanne soon went into labor; contractions came only three minutes apart. Had the baby been born then, at a weight of no more than 3 Ibs. and with frail, immature lungs, it would surely have developed life-threatening respiratory problems. But Rosanne and her baby were lucky. Given ritodrine, an experimental medication, Rosanne ceased...
...hockey stick. Since the only way he knew to swing a racquet was the wristy stroke of the table-tennis player, he flicked tennis balls the same way. The Borg topspin thus was born. By all that is classic in the sport, everything about Borg's strokes was wrong. But his mother remembers one thing that was right: "Even then he loved to play. Even then he hated to lose. Even in his pretend games, he always wanted...