Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honored guest at a Baptist Sunday service held in a large wooden hall crammed with more than 2,500 worshipers, most of them women. But he did not preach. He had the wrong kind of visa. Russian Baptist leaders explained politely: "It is not customary here to have tourists preach." Perhaps this would be possible on his next visit, they added, and Billy asked to be shown the mammoth Lenin Stadium, which seats 100,000. ("I knelt and asked God," he said later, "that some day it will be filled with people listening to the Gospel...
Fibrillation. In London, Frank Webb got turned down on his plea for divorce when he left home to become a "better spiritualist," complained that the "vibrations are all wrong" at his house...
...been "solicited"' by former military men. Said Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who promises a full-scale investigation early next month: "The big names better come to protect themselves. If not, they'll become suspect. If you enlist brains for the sake of brains, there is nothing wrong. But if you enlist names for the sake of contacts, that is wrong...
...green ranch house is midcentury, middle-class suburban. Its picture windows, once the pride of a wrong-armed infielder named Preston Ward (since departed for Kansas City), glare across the scrubby, rattlesnake-infested foothills toward the San Fernando Valley. As the Thunderbird flies, the place is 12 smoggy miles from the manicured canyons of Bel Air and Beverly Hills, where a movie star ought to live. By classical Hollywood standards, this pad is so far out that it might as well be in Oshkosh or Altoona or on a space platform, and the girl who lives there is even farther...
...jobless held at about 7% of the labor force through most of the recession, the figures dipped below 6% in November, then stayed between 5% and 6% throughout the winter, causing the experts to wonder if they might not hover there indefinitely. The May breakthrough proved the experts happily wrong, particularly since the best news came from the manufacturing industries hardest hit by recession. At a time when factory employment normally stabilizes as producers start slowing down for the summer, factory employment actually jumped by 100,000 to 16.1 million...