Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arab friendship. As Secretary of National Defense he stoutly defended this policy as necessary to protect the U.S.'s Middle East oil supplies and its vital chain of Middle East air bases. His critics did not give him credit for that kind of reasoning, whether it was wrong or right; they merely shouted "Wall Street...
...University of Michigan, and had served 6½ years in the Marines. After Mike won, a checkup showed that he was 27, that he never went to the University of Michigan, and that he served only 23 months in the Marines. "I didn't mean anything wrong." Mike explained. "It was just one of those things in a campaign. I just needed some real material to beat Pratt...
Party Theoretician Jacques Duclos, felled by the flu, got out of bed to stage-manage the exhibition. "Don't get us wrong," he confided between rasping coughs, "we are the most reasonable party. Don't get us wrong...
...Wrong." In Paris, the French National Assembly opened its 1949 session, but things did not fall into their familiar pattern. The 183 Communist deputies had been violent and insulting all last year.* At this session the party emissaries eager-beavered about the lobbies spreading good fellowship. Loud-voiced Arthur Ramette, the Communists' interrupter-heckler, spoke gently: "All we want is peace ... If we sometimes get excited, it's only because we are fighting for peace...
Considine became a newspaperman by accident. He started out as a Government messenger, typist and clerk in Washington. When the old Washington Herald spelled his name wrong, in an amateur tennis tournament, he went to the paper to complain-and got a job as tennis reporter...