Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without a word, his three brothers dived into the roiling fray, now almost at the shelf's edge, and clutched the shark's body, fins and tail. Panic-stricken, the shark lunged to escape-but in the wrong direction, toward the shelf-and an incoming swell lofted the four boys and the fish in a thrashing mass into the shallows' foot-deep waters. Grabbing rocks, the brothers clubbed the shark to death. Ten minutes later, alarmed fishermen racing to the scene found the four small boys, exhausted but proud, resting beside their unorthodox catch: the still twitching...
Mitigation. In El Paso, pleading guilty to stealing and cashing a Government check, Mrs. Marguerite Quintaro told the judge: "I didn't think it was wrong to steal from my mother...
...photographed him nude in bed with his secretary, the wife of a Cabazon cop. Says Tallent, still up for trial on a misdemeanor charge: "I will definitely ask for a jury. I don't think you'd find one man in twelve who'd find anything wrong with a businessman occupying the same room with his secretary...
...game is stronger than it has been in years. Attendance is creeping up even in the minors, after a decade of hurtling down. This season, in fact, the fans are too busy following the action on the diamond to engage in the old lament of what's-wrong-with-baseball. This summer, nothing...
...husky six-footer, he was inducted, but had been in uniform only a week when he landed in Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox, Ky. Captain Robert L. Rainey and Lieut. Colonel David L. Deutsch found nothing wrong with him except dermographia-his skin was so sensitive that they could write on it with their fingers (TIME, Jan. 19). The doctors got him to play basketball. Within 15 minutes the patient had hives and a swollen left eye. He was released from the Army. But allergy to effort is so uncommon that goldbrickers trying to feign it will...