Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...people on the Hill, a rough, largely unchanged slab of the California Sierras, dotted with gold-panners' shanties and crisscrossed by streams of flashing gold and speckled trout. Fortnight ago, for example, when Logger Bill Lingenfelter was pinned by a "widowmaker"-a tree falling in the wrong direction-his crew mates rushed him to Dr. John Rose. The "Doc" swiftly took 30 stitches in Lingenfelter's right leg and put splints...
...last year planted extra acres in corn, expecting to sell it to the Soviets. He told an audience in Harlan: "They knew they were taking a risk. Risk taking is part of farming. I have the tough and brutal decision: Do I accommodate those people who have made the wrong decision? Well, no, I don't think we should...
...commodities hedging, and far more complex investment techniques as well. So do the nation's large grain trading companies and food corporations like General Mills and ITT Continental Baking Co. Countless more ordinary investors are in the market hoping to make quick and stunning profits. If they are wrong, speculators must be prepared to lose big. Anyone who bet last autumn that January wheat prices would be headed up, and bought the maximum permissible number of 600 wheat futures contracts, could have lost $600,000 in a single day last week. Conversely, anybody who had correctly bet months...
Thus was the Carter Administration wrestling publicly with the thorny question of whether its reprisals against the Soviets should, for the first time, include the Olympic Games as a target. Many supporters of the Games argue that a boycott for any political reason is totally wrong and inappropriate. "If the Olympic Games are to survive," says Don Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee (u.s.o.c.), "they must be apolitical and remain in the private sector...
...outburst of dark fanaticism, of black hatred." Later he termed the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan "one of the most brutal acts of our time." "Thank God," he noted somewhat smugly at one point, "Egypt and Israel, unlike these two negative phenomena, are on the side of right, not wrong, of justice, not its opposite, of freedom, and not slavery...