Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Sawyer began pounding the table in Cabinet meetings and reiterating the idea. In the middle of the recession last spring, he spoke up in the Cabinet: "I feel certain there is nothing wrong with the economy of the country. I know businessmen. I'm one myself. They're as emotional as women. I'd like to go out into the country and talk to them face to face." Harry Truman thought it was a capital idea...
...vault room. The leader looked at Cashier Lloyd. "He said, 'Who is it?' I said it's probably the night mechanic. He said, 'What'll happen if you don't let him in?' I said he'd probably think something was wrong." The robbers conferred, hurriedly grabbed a last batch of moneybags and glided away. In their haste they left at least $1,000,000 behind -but it had been a profitable 20 minutes anyhow. Their take was $1,000,000 in cash and $500,000 in checks, the largest cash haul...
Last week, while 62-year-old Irving" Lindberg visited the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for a checkup and surgery, government accountants were going over the customs books. "Lindy's my friend," said Dictator Tacho. "I don't think there's anything wrong with his accounts. But Lindy's getting old." It looked very much as though the last survivor of the U.S. occupation...
...Lincoln scholars and plain readers, there was only one thing wrong with Look's snippets of wisdom: Lincoln had never said them. A few were paraphrases of genuine Lincolnisms taken out of context; others were pure invention, and all had been denounced as spurious in the Abraham Lincoln Quarterly. By last week, admitted Editor Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, Look was deluged with a "fantastic" flood of mail from indignant readers who had spotted the alleged Lincolnisms for what they were...
...years old. This week, in a report issued by the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Edinburgh's Professor Arthur Holmes had a new estimate. Two billion years, said Holmes, is a "conservative minimum." Something nearer 3,350,000,000 years, he added cautiously, "is unlikely to be seriously wrong...