Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barrier at the Pyrenees. A little later Pfeifer issued a more diplomatic, but no less straightforward, formal statement: "I've been asked, what is the U.S. going to do about Spain? I think the order of the question is wrong. I don't mean to be harsh when I say Spain is a secondary problem to the U.S. The U.S., however, is a primary problem to Spain. The real question is this: 'What is Spain going to do about the United States?' Only the Spaniards themselves can answer that...
...also had much to remember. When he was born, the son of a drunken Georgian shoemaker and his peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with an organized lie that, in the minds...
Even though the grocery business stands near its alltime high, sales-sharp Nathan Cummings, chairman of the giant Consolidated Grocers Corp., thought there was something wrong. He felt that neither he nor the grocers were selling enough food. To find out how to boost sales, the boss of the largest U.S. food wholesaling organization packed a sample case eight weeks ago and took off on a tour of hundreds of stores in ten states. He frequently donned a cotton coat and worked for stores behind the counters, "cut the cans" (gave out free samples), watched shoppers' buying habits...
...Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, When My Baby Smiles at Me) which at best gives them the pleasant frenzy of a circus calliope. But this one seems to take all the wrong paths. Even the Technicolor scenes are draped with heavy shadows that obscure the more interesting characters. The best that can be said of the show is that Gale Robbins and June Haver, both pleasant to look at, do some nice singing and dancing, whenever they get the chance...
Nothing is wrong with American radio, Kaltenborn insisted, that is not just as wrong with the whole country. He added that part of the public was materialistic, culturally immature, and so hungry for information that it would not wait for adequate confirmation of reports...