Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Explained a Filipino official to reporters: "The Lapu Lapu is not a presidential yacht. It is a navy ship." An aide tried to warn him: "If you do not give the press the entire truth, they will ferret it out." "But," replied the first official, "if I give the wrong facts who will be blamed?" At that point a reporter interrupted them: "If this is a navy ship, why are the chairs marked 'President's chairs?' " Said the second official to the first: "There, you see? I told...
...difficult," pontificated the Times of London two years ago, "to imagine either extreme nationalism or a scrupulous addiction to neutrality arising seriously in the Maldives." Seldom has the Times been more wrong...
...Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy triumph. But tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), frizzle-topped Edith Piaf wears a shapeless black silk dress and sings the tune (which she herself wrote twelve years ago) as a lament for everything that ever went wrong with love in Paris or anywhere else. Aging (43) Piaf seems hardly to have changed since she first appeared in Manhattan in 1947. Suave Vicky and wriggling Lilo only serve to set her off as what she is: the best torch singer in the business...
...copies in the South alone. Folsom Prison Blues, Ballad of a Teen-Age Queen-everything he turned out became a hit. And everything he composed came easily. "I write songs in the back of the car," Johnny explains, "or in hotel rooms, in planes." But "write" is the wrong word. He cannot read a note. Johnny simply picks out the tunes that arrange themselves in his head, plays them over and over till the boys know them well and can record them on tape...
...write sensible books . . . why he didn't become a banker . . . why he got egg on the bedspread." Back in the U.S. in the '30s, he wrote film scores (for Ben Hecht, Cecil B. DeMille), abruptly stopped writing music altogether, later explained: "I felt that I was wrong or the world was wrong, and I decided to find out." The process of discovery was oblique. Widely able, he wrote articles for Esquire on endocrinology, a daily advice-to-the-lovelorn column for the Chicago Sun Syndicate, a book in 1940 on international strategy (The Shape...