Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state laws should be amended, he said, to permit intermarriage between whites and Negroes. Although his campaign in the South had been more incendiary than heroic, his followers thought they knew a symbol when they saw one. To them Henry Wallace symbolized the fight against those things which were wrong with the U.S.: prejudice, intolerance, economic maladjustment...
...concluded, "[She] risked death and eternal damnation . . . and came to be hailed on behalf of 'simple humanity' at the price of thousands of lives which might have been, but never were and never will be. [She] was right in being what she was by committing this enormous wrong...
...Braves like their methodical manager. They like the way he memorizes the stances of each batter so that he can figure out what has gone wrong when somebody slumps, and they don't even mind when he drills them on sandlot fundamentals. The Southworth approach has kept the Braves on an even, unspectacular keel: they have put together no winning streak longer than seven games, no losing streak longer than four. Billy admits that the Braves may not be the best club in the league, but he expects to win-because the boys have the "will to win." Says...
Showdown. None of the previous credit tightening had had much effect. For example, when Congress dropped some of the easy credit for housing last spring, builders gloomed that it would take the steam out of the housing boom. They were wrong. Last week, the Department of Commerce reported that new construction had hit an alltime high of nearly $1.8 billion in August, 31% higher than a year...
...each of his three great decisions, 1915, 1938 and 1948, Benes did what seemed best at the time. No contemporary of Benes, anywhere, had a right to brand him as wrong. Yet as it worked out, his beloved Czechs today live under a yoke infinitely heavier than Franz Josef...