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Word: wronged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racial Segregation: Any segregation that "interferes with the citizen's equality of opportunity in both the economic and the political fields" is "morally wrong"-a judgment that seemed to carry the President slightly beyond his previous down-the-middle position that his job is to enforce the law of the land without making moral pronouncements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: For Second-Termers | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...left wistfully savoring the sour cream of the jest. This touch of rueful, pun-prone phantasmagoria has made 49-year-old Peter De Vries the leading comic geographer of commuterland. Humorist De Vries surveys his world with the wacky vision of a man who has inadvertently put on the wrong pair of glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adrift in a Laundromat | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Still other industrial groups blew hot and cold in the first half. Among elec tricals, General Electric rose only 1⅞to 80¾ but resurgent Westinghouse climbed 21⅜ to 94½. Among motors, an investor could hardly go wrong (Chrysler up 17⅛, Ford up 24¼)-unless he selected solid General Motors, up only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Summer Rise | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...work in Detroit. Give me, O Lord, the sense to learn algebra and to be useful in the Scouts. Amen.") Hill is also astonished at the "strong note of penitence and personal remorse" that runs through the prayers ("I ask thy forgiveness for all the things I have done wrong"). For many children, he says, the rite of confirmation means forgiveness of sins more than admission into the adult fellowship of the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Children's Prayers | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

They are most often wrong who cannot bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: SAGE & CYNIC | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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