Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe," a young London mother told a meeting of 3,600 other British mothers last week, "that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled priggish. In consequence, people are sometimes afraid to show disapproval of what they know to be wrong...
Carolina, which had done nothing right in the first quarter, could do nothing wrong after that. Quarterback Bo Hagan tempted fate by throwing passes deep in his own territory-and completed them. The Carolina stands rocked as he heaved a 40-yard pass to put Carolina ahead, then engineered another touchdown to make the final score Carolina 27, Clemson...
...have failed. In penitence we bow in the presence of our common Father God and ask His forgiveness, believing that only to the humble and penitent will He give insight into what all of us, white and colored together, should do in our city to right this wrong...
...spent $2,000 on my own set and it hasn't worked right since I bought it." From Glamour magazine came a phone call: How about an article on theater design? "Wonderful," said Loewy. "I've been waiting for a chance to tell everyone what's wrong with theaters." Then Loewy paced nervously through the various cubicles where his associates were planning new designs for everything from tiepins to locomotives...
Loewy's first job for the Pennsylvania Railroad was designing a trash can. That was successful, so he went to work blueprinting a new locomotive. To find out what was wrong with old engines, Loewy rode them for thousands of miles, noting such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited...