Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...post-election litter of blurred posters, old bunting and battered hopes, the country sat down to figure it out. Mr. Truman, who had predicted that the voters would return him a Fair Deal Congress, had been as wrong in 1950 as he had been right in 1948. The mid-term election was, in many respects, a personal defeat. What knocked Mr. Truman off his pedestal last week...
...Voters, particularly farmers in the Midwest, had responded enthusiastically to a new G.O.P. spirit of git up & git. Republican candidates had untiringly shouted their messages from platforms and street corners. Republican workers had worked hard to get out the vote. For a number of reasons that proved to be wrong, the Democrats had assumed that a big vote would favor the donkey. (Actually, Harry Truman had won in a small-sized vote in 1948.) In any case, the big vote in 1950 favored the Republicans...
...Tammany Chieftain Carmine G. DeSapio: "I guess we picked the wrong...
Therefore, it will most likely be conscription that raises the German army of the future--conscription would include the men who have the greatest aversion to war, and consequently the least inclination to turn it loose in the wrong direction...
...turned over again and tried to squeeze under what was apparently a blanket. There was something wrong with that last idea. Celebrate the imminence of the Princeton game. Of course; celebrate was the square peg. Deplore, bemoan, he thought, bewail but do not celebrate...