Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mistake." Had she ever read Karl Marx? "No, never." Had she read Lenin? "No, no." There were more questions, including one about how she had voted in the last election. Then she was whisked off to Ellis Island. Twenty-four hours later, after Canadian Ambassador Hume Wrong had protested to the U.S. State Department, she was released...
Commander Carl I. Aslakson of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey recently noted that a long series of land measurements made by shoran (a kind of radar) had gone wrong. Each measurement went wrong by the same small percentage. The measurers checked their instruments, checked their procedures. Everything was shipshape. The only thing left to account for the errors was the speed of light itself. With a guilty feeling and bated breaths, they shaded the sacred figure a tiny bit and made the measurements again. Everything came out exactly right...
John W. Holt, director of the Student Employment Office, said he would make no move unless Chi appealed to him personally. He said he doubted that Whouley was practicing discrimination, and implied that if there was discrimination on the Square Chi was attacking it in the wrong...
...confusing second event, a hapless and inexperienced freshman squad galloped around the wrong trails, finally coming up with 41 points to Tufts' 17. The mixup on the trails occurred when flag markers for the varsity course were followed by more than half of the Crimson and Tufts freshmen. Although the distance was then too long for a true freshman course, comparative times determined the scoring...
According to the notes on the meetings, 'Warshaw cut in and stated that the Steering Committee was wrong in claiming mistranslating. He said that he would like to read the translation along with the official Festival copy and compare them. The chairman said that the committee shouldn't discuss specific differences but principals.' Someone also said 'you have to see the incident in its total context...