Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattlemen-took their abundant energy and confidence for granted. Dallas Banker Bob Thornton had an explanation for it. Said he: "Energy is mostly habit. Take the way people in Dallas walk. Why, in St. Louis I trip over everybody, they walk so slow. That's what's wrong with St. Louis...
...There are two great principles in the world. One is Christianity. Not just Christian doctrine, but the basic principles of right & wrong, of clean living, of kindness to one's neighbor. The other great principle has many names. Freedom, liberty or democracy-whatever called-its essence is the right and dignity of the individual. To achieve that principle has taken centuries of revolution and bloody battle. In Japan, this principle came so suddenly-and so quietly-that most observers fail to see the scope of the tremendous, bloodless revolution that has been wrought here since the start...
Everything seemed to be going wrong at Bonn. The Social Democratic Party bitterly fought the Western Powers' "interference" in the work of the constitutional convention because it tended to impose too many limitations upon German sovereignty. The Western Allies, cried the Socialists, were trying to create a federal republic with such a weak central government that it could never properly govern. The Socialists were equally mad at their fellow Germans in the Christian Democratic Union, which was stringing along with the plans for a weaker government. At a Socialist meeting in Hannover last week, gaunt, one-armed, one-legged...
...bawled him out. The student fired back: "In America the students chew gum." Stymied, the teacher put the issue up to class debate: Was it proper to chew gum in school even if Americans did so? The class long and earnestly debated the issue, then decided it was wrong, ordered the offending boy to apologize...
...finest ever written, is a study in titanic contrasts. One moment the whole orchestra is playing the rhythmic theme louder than would seem possible, and suddenly nothing remains but a rollicking melody for woodwind quartet. Some critics call the third movement too long. They could not be more wrong. After hearing Koussevitzky's interpretation, I could only wish that the movement was twice as long as it is. But Beethoven knew the dangers of satisfaction, and he achieved just the right length...