Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington on the last day of October 1948, burly William Marshall Boyle Jr., one of Kansas City's smartest local politicians, pushed aside a pile of statistics and predicted flatly that Harry Truman would carry 29 states. He was wrong on only one state: Maryland went for Tom Dewey (by 8,293 votes...
...tolerant that he has outgrown all old-fashioned convictions of inherent right and wrong, good and evil...
...listen to the radio broadcasts of the trial, believed in Mindszenty more strongly than ever. Said a Catholic worker: "He is my priest. The government could not have strong enough reason to bring him into court." Said a middle-aged woman: "The Primate's greatest mistake was his wrong timing in speculating on the collapse of the government." Most Hungarians were simply scared. They no longer dared publicly discuss the Mindszenty case-or any other political topic. On the Sunday before Mindszenty's sentencing, priests in their sermons avoided reference to the trial...
...Williams stoutly denied that the fox was alive when the hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody was making a devil of a row." Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said to the jury: "Let your verdict be a strong one. Let it be the kill. Let it be the death blow to all these lies and defamations." The jury...
...stimulants and sedatives. The obtuse charge that he was a snob roused him to heat in his last letters. He was as friendly, he insisted, with valets and chauffeurs as with princes. And was it not the world of fashion, he asked another correspondent, which "is slandered ... is always wrong, talks nonsense [in my writing...