Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...richest farmers in history, enjoying the richest years of their lives, and determined that other U.S. taxpayers should go on contributing handsomely to their prosperity. All week long the Senators wrangled hotly for the farmers' favor, reminding each other of the awful vengeance awaiting anyone who voted wrong...
...tour through the villages not long ago, Nehru was supoosed to unfurl the national tricolor at a public meeting. Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled...
...architects have long been agreed on at least one point: the nation needs new schools. But, said ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week, "it is a sad-and little recognized-fact that the pitifully inadequate supply of taxpayer's dollars is, in most big U.S. cities, being spent for the wrong kind of schools." To show what it meant, the FORUM devoted its entire October issue to the U.S. school...
...feckless planning and design. New York City is not alone. Throughout the U.S., school boards are putting up the wrong kind of schools. They spend thousands of extra dollars on belfries, balconies, Grecian columns, fake chimneys, and dummy dormers. They balk at the idea of the unpretentious one-story schoolhouse to which rooms can be added as needed...
...employment and slight economic regression, had previously expected the number of "students" to drop at this time. Although most classes cost only eight dollars for ten-meeting semesters, they were afraid that the public might hold its money in higher esteem than the Ceenter's courses. They were wrong. It seems that most adults already know something about the A B C's of Investments, and consider the Center's dividend of knowledge a thoroughly enjoyable and profitable...