Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unofficial mouthpiece of British governments, as it had been, to its subsequent shame, in the days of Munich. To make matters worse, the Lloyd story had a certain plausibility. Once hailed as one of the Tory Party's coming stars ("a young man who never puts a foot wrong"), plump, pedestrian Selwyn Lloyd, 54, was all but ruined politically by being Foreign Secretary at the time of the Suez invasion, and by his disingenuous attempts to justify Suez afterward. For a long time, it was said, Harold Macmillan only kept him on as a sop to the militant Suez...
...Times was wrong, who had misinformed it? The wits of May fair could not decide whether the culprit was someone who wanted to get rid of Selwyn Lloyd or ensure his continuance in office. The simplest explanation was that the august Times of London-by blowing up run-of-the-mill speculation-had goofed, and the lesson of it was that the once mighty Thunderer is really now, as so many Fleet Streeters call it, old Aunty of Printing House Square. The further consequence of the flap was that plodding Selwyn Lloyd could now consider himself more secure...
...problems grow in their complexity, a once thriving breed of rugged radicals is dying a lingering death. In the place of vigorous protest and proposals, a majority of today's undergraduates--calling themselves "moderate liberals"--voice either vague satisfaction or, at worst, a perplexed feeling that something, somewhere, is wrong...
...most brilliant speech of his career, Premier Michel Debre, the man most responsible for the new constitution, stood firm against this challenge. Freely admitting that as a Senator during the Fourth Republic, he had himself been "a master of the art" of Tunisification, he added: "Yet I was wrong." He boldly pitched his argument to the widespread French anxiety, rarely expressed publicly, about what happens after President de Gaulle leaves the scene. "To guarantee the future of democracy in France," at a time when Parliament itself is discredited in the public mind, Parliament must not assert its "harassing" power against...
...Naturally, this applies only to the beginning stages of your career. By the time of your first major symphonic work you will graduate to balancing martini glasses. Meanwhile remember that more than one promising career has been nipped in the bud by a petit four injudiciously dropped on the wrong dress...