Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crucial Battle of Jutland in 1916 German salvos sent one British ship after another plunging to the bottom. Admiral Sir David Beatty, striding the bridge of the battle cruiser Lion, turned on a young flag officer, Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield, and remarked: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
Last week, nearly 23 years after Jutland, there was little wrong with Britain's bloody ships because Lord Chatfield as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff had the job of bringing them to scratch. But there was plenty wrong with the rest of her three-year rearmament efforts. Four months have passed since the Czecho-Slovak war scare but few measures apparent to the public have been taken to improve Britain's shockingly weak defenses...
Colonies. The "theft" of the former German colonies, the Führer said, was "morally wrong" and "sheer madness." "To assume that it was permitted by the Lord God to a few peoples first to take possession of the world by force and then to defend their robbery by moral theories is perhaps comforting and above all easy for the possessors, but it is immaterial and uninteresting and non-binding for the have-nots," Herr Hitler declared. "No people have been born to be have-nots and no people to be haves." Threateningly the Führer added: "It will...
...other innocent is Eddie, one of the wife's bright young men. Several years older than Portia, malicious, cynical, charming, he is that far more complex character, the corrupt innocent, who "had gone wrong through dealing with other people in terms that he found later were not their own." To him, Portia's innocence is a last oasis in the world's wasteland. But he plays her false with another girl, compromises her with everybody, ironically completes his betrayal when he refuses her love, saying she has the same ulterior motives as everybody else...
...Book. The story begins in May 1927, when the river, the Old Man, is on a rampage, when levees are broken, the country flooded, the waters flowing the wrong way, and barns, mules, chicken coops and people bobbing around in a drenched and bewildering world. One of the bewildered people is a tall, lean, 25-year-old hillbilly convict who has never seen much water before. Given a boat which he does not know how to manage, he is sent to rescue a woman perched on an old cypress snag and a man clinging to the ridgepole of a cotton...