Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...only thing wrong with the $25 assessment on American Medical Association members, to be spent for lobbying against the national health insurance program, is that it's not enough. The A.M.A. should take a page from its own book and charge the good doctors according to their incomes, the way these champions of free enterprise do to the public. Like this: a member surgeon charges a man having a $5,000-a-year income $500 for an essential operation on the man's wife. Ten percent is not at all unusual in such circumstances . . . This plan would provide...
Were the Joint Chiefs prepared to back up this military mission with troops, ships and squadrons if something went wrong with the calculations, if the Communists beat the Nationalists to the punch again? Hadn't even Douglas MacArthur (who had influenced the J.C.S. decision to send a mission to Formosa) said that the island did not warrant the commitment of U.S. troops? What did the Joint Chiefs hope to gain by risking the U.S.'s reputation and its military mission in such a shaky gesture...
...done me wrong-The one who done me wrong-The one who done me wrong in Little...
...them has been surprised by his immense understanding of art and the delicacy and depth of his wisdom and judgment." Stalin, he reported, had listened to many works entered in competition for a hymn of the Soviet Union, and "with surprising exactitude" put his finger on precisely what was wrong with each of them. "For composers," said Shostakovich, ". . . these meetings with the leader were a real school which left lifetime traces in their consciousness...
...this writer daily reads over amusement sections in search of new and different Western movies, and then goes to see them. His friends, an intellectual lot, laugh at this and claim that "if you've seen one Western you've seen them all." I think I can prove them wrong...