Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorry, Wrong Number. A thriller about terror on the telephone, with Barbara Stanwyck on the fatal end of the line (TIME, Sept...
Young Edbury Hatch had just picked the wrong trade. When he was a boy in Newcastle, Me., the town had supported ten busy shipyards and every new vessel needed a carved figurehead. But by 1870, when William Southworth discharged Hatch, business was starting to fall...
...sense-"comes in two ways: 1) by accurate tips, diligently followed up; 2) by doping out a story for yourself, then confronting some knowing source with it to see if you're on the right track. Generally I just operate with a sense of smell: if something smells wrong, I go to work...
...worth suing over. Editors seldom ask Pearson for his proof. They know he will fight the case for them if they are sued. It is not altruism on his part. He cannot afford to lose many suits and stay in business. "But when someone shows me I'm wrong," he says, "I retract in a hurry." If he is sure he is right, he stands pat against threats and legal action...
...asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur, "I'll see that that is changed." Once a woman asked him why he had never taken a Ph.D. "Who," replied Kitty in all seriousness, "would have examined...