Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period immediately following November 2, much talk centered upon the five--elections-- wrong American press, which had all but unanimously pressed for the losing Republican candidate and, to cap the atrocity, had completely mistaken the public pulsebeat in the process. By new, how-ever, most newspapers have managed to submerge the issue and settle down to the merry business of waving an admonishing finger in the direction of the Truman Administration...
...middle-of-the-road journalists nevertheless agree that, while the Truman victory doesn't admit to pat analysis, the basic reportorial error, attributable to whatever primary cause, is quite uncomplicated in its implications. Correspondent James Reston wrote to his own New York Times the morning after that "we were wrong, not only on the election, but, what's worse, on the whole political direction of our time." Richard Lee Strout of the Christian Science Monitor's Washington staff commented that in past New Deal elections there was generally divided judgement over the result. "This time we missed the boat altogether...
Before he opened Santa Anita 15 years ago, Strub sent aides to scout the eastern tracks and report in detail what was wrong with them. The findings: poor parking facilities, not enough elbow room in grandstands. So Doc ordered up the largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of it) and an ultra-roomy grandstand. His attendants, ushers and gatemen were drilled in courtesy. Strub even handed out kindly advice to the uninitiated bettor, posted such warnings as: "Bet only what you can afford to lose, not what you hope...
...President proved the outstanding star of a good show. Time after time, TV showed Harry Truman in a folksy moment : as he got into his overcoat after the speech on Capitol Hill, when he sat in the wrong seat in the presidential box and, with unflustered stolidity, moved to the right one. The star* even managed to give his white tie and tails the informal look of a comfortable business suit...
Elmo Roper, whose poll on the last election had been as wrong as the others, last week stopped his syndicated weekly newspaper column ("What People Are Thinking"). Roper said he still thinks it important to tell what people think, but he wants to spend more time investigating why they think that...