Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edsel (obs.). The wrong car in the wrong place at the wrong time. See BUSINESS, The $250 Million Flop...
...Middle Man. Key man of the defense is the middle linebacker, and from coast to coast, he is getting the hero worship that was once reserved for the touchdown-happy backs. In Detroit, Joe Schmidt can do nothing wrong, although his Lions (2-6-1) can do nothing right. In San Francisco, small boys speak in awe of the thundering tackles of Jerry Tubbs. At a banquet in California, Les Richter of the Los Angeles Rams diagramed defenses for a solid hour and enthralled U.C.L.A. Physicist Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the U.S. International Geophysical Year Committee...
...quarrel, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter surprised reporters in Washington last week by remarking that the U.S. had not "taken any sides at all" in the Sino-Indian border dispute and, when pressed, conceded that "the U.S. has no view whatsoever as to the rightness or wrongness of this issue." After the conference, when prodded by his aides, Herter hastily issued a statement that his press conference remarks "related only to the legalities of the rival claims." But, whatever the legalities, he said, the Chinese Reds were "wholly in the wrong" in using force to assert their claims...
Last week Bhengu was busy in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Whites jam-packed Salisbury's Methodist Hall to hear him tell them, in precise English, what was wrong with white Christianity: "The greatest dangers in Africa today are Communism and Islam. Both offer the African equality. The churches are divided. There are too many, and their different dogmas and doctrines are too confusing for Africans. Christianity has failed in India and China because Christians have failed to live up to Christ's teaching, and in Africa it's proving an empty shell for the same reason. If Christians...
...ceaselessly. One man sent $20,000 just because he pitied Colby as he passed by on the train. But World War II canceled construction and dashed the dream. When Bixler arrived, Mayflower Hill had only three completed buildings and five shells. Old Colby (enrollment: 651) still squatted on the wrong side of the tracks...