Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasized the present hopelessness of the whole Chinese situation, on which the U.S., for the past three years, had turned its back. The U.S. had made mistakes, he pointed out, which could not be corrected overnight. China's Nationalist government was also deeply at fault. Something was obviously wrong with Nationalist military leadership. Why, for example, had well-trained, well-equipped Nationalist divisions refused to fight at Mukden...
...married. When she wrote to three young men of her acquaintance one day, she had no idea the letters were going to turn up in black type in Komsomolskaya Pravda, but they did. Miss Stepanchenko had made the deplorable mistake of getting all three letters into the wrong envelopes. The recipients thought three was a crowd and exposed the flirtatious Galina. Moscow Correspondent Joseph Newman sent Komsomolskaya Pravda's story along to the New York Herald Tribune, which pubished it this week...
Scientists often reach worthwhile goals by setting off in the wrong direction. Dr. Alma J. Whiffen of the Upjohn Co. did just that, several years ago. She noticed that Streptomyces griseus, the mold that produces bacteria-killing streptomycin, also produces a substance that is deadly to fungi. She separated it from the "beers" (solution in which the mold had been growing), called it "actidione," and tried it on fungi that cause human diseases...
...black-on-white tells other tales as well. Hundreds of wrong rulings by referees in past Crimson games have shown up distressingly well on the screen. "Lots of referees would like to take the game over after seeing the movies," Gelotte comments...
...many doubtful verdicts on the field have also been upheld. Four weeks ago in the last minutes of the Dartmouth game the fans booed the head linesman for calling Crimson end Johnny Florentine off side on Chip Gannon's touchdown run. The movies showed the fans were wrong...