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Word: wrongful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Race. What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. Cincinnati's Robert Howsam blames the weather: "In 22 of our first 26 games we had either rain or the threat of it." Others pick on TV and the unattractiveness of older big-league stadiums, at least two of which-Chicago's Comiskey Park and Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium-are located in ghetto areas, which many fans are afraid to traverse at night. The pitchers' domination of the sport and the concurrent decline in hitting (as of last week only eight major-leaguers were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Slump at the Turnstiles | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...their excursion for diamonds, moreover, the cinematic mercenaries headed in the wrong direction. The Congo's chief source of diamonds is South Kasai province, which the real-life Simbas never attacked. Thrilling as it is under the suspension of disbelief, Dark of the Sun would have been a much brighter movie had it not pretended to mirror fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Dark of the Sun | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...that time, and spoke up for Negroes long before riots made such talk politic. "If a police officer is so thin-skinned that he is afraid of being called a 'nigger lover' because he is doing his duty," Jenkins once said, "then he is in the wrong kind of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Top Cops | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, is almost certainly right. When he States that something is impossible, he 'is very probably wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science Fiction: Latter-Day Jules Verne | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...learn from it. And you will laugh like hell at something you never though you'd laugh at again. When you saw the posters in the Square, you thought, "I don't want to see another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. You were wrong. You do want to see another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Midsummer Night's Dream | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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