Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...International Meditation Society, which is Maharishi's subsidiary for the spread of his ideas in universities, the "dropouts" officially don't exist. Spokesmen like Jerry Jarvis, head of SIMS's American branch, soothe their eager audiences with repeated assurances that meditation works for everyone, that nothing can go seriously wrong. In fact, every novice must attend lectures given on the three consecutive nights after his initiation, which supposedly are "advance instruction," allowing one to "refine" his technique. In fact, these "lectures" were question-and-answer periods, and gave me my first feelings of uneasiness about the movement...
Responded NET Program Director William Kobin: "You're wrong. We're not going fast enough...
...sight. Will he be photographed being greeted by no one? Hardly. At the proper moment, kids stream on cue from every door, engulfing the candidate, filling the lenses. After stumping a city, the staff sometimes prepares an exhaustive written critique on what went right?and wrong...
...whole harrowing experience happened because the men relied on a map that told them they were a good 200 feet from the nearest abandoned mine. It was wrong. The mechanical digger easily bit through the thin wall to an adjacent flooded mine, and water rushed through the gap, knocking down large chunks of walls. Four men drowned in the torrent. The six others scrambled to the highest spot in the 9 by 140-ft. area, frantically constructed a barricade of timber and heavy burlap to keep out the flood, foul air and deadly gases. As the water continued to rise...
...judge's decision whether or not to stop the race when the shell ran into its misfortune during the first thirty seconds. Right or wrong, he made the decision not to do so. Placing the Crimson in the finals after its last place finish in the trials not only countermands that decision, but also makes the assumption that the boat would have avoided any further mishap during the course of that particular race...