Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were so many committees and subcommittees in the picture that the blame became as institutional as the Great White Goof itself. "In any $25 million Government building," said a Capitol employee philosophically, "you're bound to have some things go wrong...
Even when plutonium is stored in a carefully designed container, workers live close to catastrophe. Each small chunk of plutonium must be kept a respectful distance from the others, lest they combine to form the critical mass that sets off an atomic reaction. Even a human body in the wrong place can reflect enough neutrons into a chunk of plutonium to set off a chain reaction that could kill everyone in the lab with a blast of radiation...
Born on the wrong side of the tracks, Ernie is the sort of stop-at-nothing cartoon capitalist who not only moved over to the right side-he also bought the tracks. The camera discovers him, in sleek middle age, roaring it up as the beast of the board room of the Eastern & Portland Railroad, whose cringing miscellany of vice presidents is pleading with the "general," as he likes to be called, not to ruin a poor helpless widow (Doris Day) and her two small children. With surly reluctance, he consents to make a nominal restitution to the "miserable broad...
...Rocks. Harsen himself has not yet bought a house, lives with his wife in a simply furnished apartment overlooking the harbor in nearby Fort Lauderdale, keeps a weather eye on the passing parade of boats ("When 70% of them are not Chris-Crafts, I'll know something is wrong"). Tanned, -blue-eyed May Smith. 51, is a Smith only by marriage, so she is understandably lacking in some of the finer points of salty boatsmanship (she insists on calling the galley a "kitchen.'' and on cruises she insists on plugging all boat drains at night to keep...
...Aerobacter aerogenes, found naturally on many food plants and in water and milk, as well as in man's digestive tract. Once rated almost harmless, it is now a killer. In sum, optimists who think it is old-fashioned nonsense to talk about fatal "blood poisoning" are wrong. There are now more deaths from septicemia than there were before the antibiotic age, said Dr. Finland...