Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...stay. Vance said he would continue in office if he could dissent publicly about the mission. Carter reluctantly agreed, and Vance left the Oval Office. But after a few minutes he returned. "Forget I said that," he told the President, and then explained that he felt it would be wrong for him to make public his lack of support for such an important venture...
What went wrong with the helicopters...
...They construct galaxies and float apart with the humble wonder we feel when we muse on the infinity of the sky, in oceanic silence, and trace the impersonal yet poignant movement of the stars. Hazzard sees things in two planes, as both personal emotion and tragedy, life through the wrong end of a telescope, transparently removed--almost mythologized...
...highly sensitive electronics systems that went wrong but much more basic systems. This is particularly baffling because the helicopter has had an excellent record in the 14 years it has been deployed. The Sea Stallions are tough and have racked up an excellent reliability record. Aborted flights have been rare. The fact that three of the choppers suffered electrical or hydraulic malfunctions is puzzling experts, but they can only speculate about the causes until a thorough investigation is completed...
Translation: the biggest thing wrong with Southern women is Southern men. Maybe so. But Daniell's argument is not nearly as compelling as the relatives and acquaintances she uses for illustration: the cousin who took to bed for 20 years after her father forbade her to marry the man she loved, the car-crazy boyfriend whose kisses tasted of brake fluid, the professor who had an arrowed heart containing the legend "Mother" tattooed on his groin...