Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with unaccustomed cash and astute at espying loopholes in the law's vigilance, he rambled across the country using a collection of aliases. Then, after a .30-'06 bullet killed Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, spurious radio messages sent Memphis police chasing the wrong way after Ray's 1966 white Mustang...
...Dearborn, Mich., the same women who had organized for all sorts of community good works, and now they were on the police shooting range learning how to use pistols." The columnist concluded: "What seems especially American is the depths of the belief that it is easy to right wrongs. And that may be the root of youth's bitterness at finding that wrong abides...
...Negroes Hersey interviewed, was the presence of two young white prostitutes. Senak, said a witness, ripped the clothes off one with the barrel of his shotgun and ordered the other to undress before the officers. He demanded to know why they preferred Negroes as clients. "What's wrong with us, you nigger lovers?" Another cop then chimed in: "We're going to fill up the Detroit River with all you pimps and whores...
...Side cutouts are wrong: no one is interested in the sides of a woman, for which, as far as I know, there is very little...
...Chartists, mathematicians, statisticians, computers and dart throwers all get a chance to show their stuff under his skeptical gaze. Drawing from Gustave le Bon's 1895 book The Crowd, he views the investing public as a highly volatile and irrational mass mind that usually overreacts and does the wrong thing. Yet Smith/Goodman is neither dogmatist nor snob, as evidenced by his parody of Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, maybe you haven't heard the news...