Word: amiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, Purify it; where it is in error, direct it'; where in any thing it is amiss, reform...
Last May the Belgian government submitted an account of its stewardship of Ruanda-Urundi to the U.N. Trusteeship Council. The council last week issued its "report on the report," finding much amiss about the way the Belgians directed the Batutsi 5% of the population to rule the Bahutu 94%.* The Russians, who check up on everybody, refused to sign the report. The Russians thought the council was not sufficiently critical of the Belgians...
...group of 581 married women complaining of sterility, 5% were virgins who had no idea that there was anything amiss.* These "somewhat startling figures" should awaken doctors to the need of giving better guidance on sexual matters, "even though it is much less dramatic than performing plastic operations of varying degrees of ingenuity on already disorganized Fallopian tubes...
Yard cop Richard Ikels thought something amiss early Saturday morning when he spied a lone figure leaving Thayer Hall with three topcoats, a jacket, and a new Underwood typewriter. Hauled in Cambridge city court, the man gave his name as Russel H. Peterson and later pleaded gulliy to a charge of larceny...
...afterwards came to have a fourth down on the Crimson 20-yard line. Actually, Eli coach Howle Odell sent Billy Booe into the game with instructions to try a run around end, feeling that his place-kicker was not capable of such a lengthy field goal endeavor. Something went amiss between the bench and the huddle and Yale got three unexpected points...