Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Romania vs. Czechoslovakia is not the game we wanted to see. In fact, it is the game almost no one in the arena has bought tickets for. But the Official Olympic Ticket Committee misprinted about 400 tickets, leading many United States vs. Norway fans into the wrong arena at the right time. The police guarding the door to the right rink turn spectators away sternly, repeating, "I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do about it." They are authoritarian clones, faceless and infuriating among all the hope and faith. "Go to the Chamber of Commerce," is another...
Many official Olympic officials enjoy telling people who complain--the ones who missed events because of the transportation, the ones who received the wrong tickets, the ones with frostbite and no hotel--that the awards ceremonies are open to the public. They certainly are, and the public is there, 20 deep around the platforms, half and hour before hand, freezing in anticipation. It's a high school pep rally, but greater...
Chrysler? "What's wrong with bankruptcy...
Well, Senator, a boston TV journalist quipped to Kennedy about two weeks ago, "just about everything that could go wrong with your campaign has gone wrong." Kennedy smiles for the camera and starts to talk about the "uphill battles." Pressed to critique his own campaign since his announcement, Kennedy concedes that there is one thing he surely would not do again: he would not buy another one of those expensive jets to campaign...
...just that. He speaks loudly and radiates force, but there is still a certain charm. The often scowling, sometimes fearsome product of the Texas oilman tradition declares that he always says what he thinks. "Anybody who thinks oil refineries are a greater threat than Communism must have something wrong with him," says Connally, and his conservative businessmen-backers smile...