Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...votes cast for Progressive candidates for local offices, he would have given Dewey that state too. But his loud & noisy campaign had struck no roots. He had managed to convince the voters that he had only one major policy-Russia was always right, the U.S. always wrong. Obviously, the future of Gideon's army-if it had a future-was parlous...
...McCabe's squad, which couldn't seem to do anything right in its last few games, couldn't do anything wrong against the baffled Bruins. They thoroughly outcharged the Brown forward wall during the first three quarters of the game, intercepted half a dozen misdirected Bruin passes, and tackled like men possessed...
...sense of narrative. But he confuses his reader far too often. He doesn't make his setting clear soon enough. He doesn't make his shifts from mood to mood easy enough to follow. And he doesn't quite manage to get across just what was wrong with the party, or with the girl, or with the girl's friends. He writes will enough in places so that there isn't any reason to suppose that he couldn't write equally well all through if he had an objective critical editor to work with...
...Malthusians are not the only ones who have been wildly wrong about population growth. Abraham Lincoln, assuming that U.S. population would continue to grow as fast as it did in his day, predicted that the U.S. would have 250 million people by 1930. According to his forecasts, the 1948 population would be 430 million instead of 140 million...
...Sorry, Wrong Number. A thriller about terror on the telephone, with Barbara Stanwyck on the fatal end of the line (TIME, Sept...