Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more he learns new words through spoken rather than written language. "Because of the slovenliness of American speech and the ease with which words can be misunderstood, he does not hear the word correctly. Since he does very little reading, he has no idea that he is using the wrong word, for he has never seen the expression in print...
...phony, invited Carter to inspect West German research centers-and the French-German Ballistics Research Institute in Alsace-to see for himself. For telltale days Carter hesitated; when he finally did accept, it was with the face-saving declaration that the only thing that would convince him he was wrong was a look at the French bomb...
...Started with a Kiss (M-G-M). "Any marriage is wrong when you take the sex out of it," complains newlywed Air Force Sergeant Glenn Ford, who has just arrived from two sexless years in Iceland. "Do you think you're smarter than Freud?" he asks Showgirl Debbie Reynolds, who thinks she is - almost. In the first days of their marriage she gets the notion in her orange-rinsed head that sex clouds her judgment. "The trouble with us is the only thing we have in common is this physical attraction," she explains. In order to assure herself that...
Overtime. In Buffalo, fined $5 for illegal parking, Attorney Charles J. Grieb won a dismissal six months later when he submitted a 15-page brief complete with photographs, sketches and electronic tests proving that the meter was wrong-all at a cost...
...Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rerun of The Jockey, the adventures of a jock from the right side of the track trying to discover whether some guys from the wrong side...