Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...years." Agreed a former Olympic star, Bob Mathias, 49, of Colorado Springs, Colo., who won gold medals in the decathlon in 1948 and 1952: "Our people want to go to Moscow to beat the hell out of those guys and tell them face to face what's wrong with them...
...overwhelming majority of Third World nations agreed: "No arguments can be used to justify that intervention," said Nigeria. "It is a wrong-headed and unjustified act," said Iraq. "We refuse to be a pawn in the hands of any power bloc," said Zaire...
...Hagan, Democratic Party chairman of Ohio's Cuyahoga County, recommends letting state parties add at least 25 delegates from their own ranks who would be uncommitted to any particular candidate. That would leave them free to bargain with other delegations at the convention. Says Hagan: "I see nothing wrong with 100 county chairmen from across the country having some say about what direction they want to go in. At least they would be a check on the possibility that someone runs through these primaries without great scrutiny...
...left a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick, where he had thrown a party for eleven aides-five men and six women. Kennedy later claimed that he and Kopechne were driving back to their separate hotels in Edgartown, the main town on Martha's Vineyard, when he made a wrong turn and headed east down a dirt road to Dike Bridge. After the accident, Kennedy said, he managed to struggle out of the submerged car. As his story goes, after several dives in an attempt to save Kopechne, he walked back to the cottage to summon two close aides, Joseph Gargan...
Rarely have two actors, Edward Fox and Cynthia Harris, looked so right and yet been so wrong for their parts. King Edward's charm was famous; Fox seems to think that that elusive quality can be conveyed by flashing his teeth, which he does with alarming regularity. Simpson was enormously attractive to many men; as Harris portrays her, even a dullard like this Edward would have had enough sense to pack her off to the Tower - or head for the door at first sight...