Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When we're wrong, no one forgets...
Knight said they were wrong. But a relative, irked by an old family feud, had dug up Davis Knight's genealogy. His great-grandfather had been Cap'n Newt Knight, who deserted the Confederate Army and set up "The Free State of Jones" in Jones County. Cap'n Newt had had children by Rachel, a Negro slave girl. Rachel was Davis Knight's great-grandmother...
Translated (although few readers were likely to do so), all that this hodgepodge meant was that the Mirror had been wrong in the first place, and was now boastfully admitting...
...darkness before dawn things began to go wrong. On the flight engineer's board, instrument needles flickered away from their reassuring positions. An outboard engine began to lose oil; it flowed back over the wing like blood in the moonlight. The plane began to shudder; the far starboard engine died. Its feathered prop stood stark and motionless. The plane rumbled on uneasily, unevenly. The other starboard engine sputtered and died, and the craft began to lose altitude. Up forward, the radio operator methodically clicked out an SOS, giving his position. The white-faced passengers cinched themselves into life jackets...
...Princess Elizabeth's son. Only a favored few* know what he looks like or how he is progressing . . . Why this secrecy? The whole world is waiting to know about the baby . . . The palace authorities are ill advised." The Paris press went further; it wondered if there was anything wrong with the health of the baby to warrant such secrecy...