Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enough's Enough. In Milwaukee, police asked James Beard to explain how he came to be stalking down the street with a telephone cord and receiver hanging around his neck, learned that Beard had been given one wrong number too many...
When something goes wrong with rehearsals of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Antal Dorati doesn't take it out on the musicians. Instead, he is apt to tell them: "We'll take a five-minute break while I go give myself hell." He goes into his dressing room, kicks things around for a while, then comes back glowing. The treatment seems to be as efficacious for his musicians...
Wallace started by getting the wrong foot in his mouth. He read a letter by George Polk, the CBS correspondent whose murder in Greece (TIME, May 24, July 5) is still unsolved. Next he attacked Newsweek (Folk's former employer), CBS and the press in general for not doing enough to clear up the crime. Perhaps he was trying to ingratiate himself with the newsmen by showing concern for their rights; more probably he was chiding them. In any case, he made the correspondents angry. Wrote Britain's discerning Rebecca West: ". . . Never have I seen ... such a miracle...
Last week, some 2,000 years later, Olympic athletes in London were still talking about food. At Uxbridge, where 289 U.S. Olympic athletes were quartered, their angry roars could be heard in the kitchen. The wrestlers were getting enough to eat, but the wrong kind of diet. One coach threatened to smuggle his he-men into London for a feed on black-market steaks...
...gave 20th Century music its biggest shock seemed to have abruptly turned his back on his times, and gone back beyond Bach. "It was wrong to consider me a revolutionary," he says. "All I did was a few inventions...