Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recently put it into storage and purchased a 1928 Rolls-Royce. Since buying the English car a month ago, Osgood has had it in Byrd's Garage in Cambridge. As his roommate explains the situation, "It's not that there's anything wrong with it. It's just that Mr. Byrd likes Rolls-Royces and we can't get the damn thing away from...
Strong criticism of radio was voiced last night at a Law School Forum on "What Is Wrong with American Radio?" Speakers attacked the industry for its overcommercialization, the low intellectual standards of its programs, and the smallness of its public service broadcasts...
...first we picked up the phone, told them they had the wrong number and hung up," said Ettlinger, "but we missed a lot of important Wellesley calls, so we had to stop...
Other methods of answering included an insulting cross-examination, the reply "This is the Boston zoo, you have the wrong lion," the straight-faced taking of orders, and occasional bursts of profanity...
...easy to make friends with people whose ideas are different, whose language we find easy to misunderstand. Sometimes they feel that we live up to our American reputation for being crude. Sometimes things happen which rub us very much the wrong way. It takes good will, patience and humilty to really make friends...