Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crash of falling governments had rudely reminded the U.S. State Department of an unpleasant fact: something was radically wrong with its Latin American policy. In eight weeks, a succession of military coups had toppled three governments, threatened two others; until last week the U.S. had failed to react...
...Marsh, most modern art is "phony sub-primitivism. Critics may not know what's wrong with Picasso, but any layman can tell you. The question is, what does it mean?" Questioned as to the meaning of his own work, Marsh says with a faintly puzzled air that it means what it describes-New York. "This is a new city, wide-open to an artist. It offers itself...
Students found time to start a literary society, publish a magazine, and indulge in diversions that met with faculty approval: boating, fishing, wicket and quoits. It was considered "morally wrong" for students to spend much time over a chessboard, and some young wastrels had been known to patronize saloons, gaming houses and even the theater...
...Manuel Kaufman in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, benign nervousness is a lot more common than the nasty, malignant (psychoneurotic) kind. One way to tell the difference: the patient with the benign kind is pleased if he is told there's nothing wrong with him physically; the true neurotic is apt to be disappointed...
...Wrong Decision? U.S. Rubber Co., which had just been fined $5,000 for conspiring to fix prices at home (TIME, Nov. 1), was in trouble again for its doings in the international market. Attorney General Tom Clark filed an antitrust suit against U.S. Rubber, its British subsidiary, Consolidated Rubber Manufacturers Ltd., and British Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. The charge: that the three companies had divided up the world rubber market, and prevented the unlimited flow of rubber products into...