Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Yovicsin admitted that Champi was his starting quarterback, but not his only one, a Boston paper ran a lengthy feature in its Sunday section. Naturally, when Harvard looked sluggish against Holy Cross and lost to B.U. people started wondering. What's wrong with Champi? When Champi quit the squad last week, the amount of coverage he received was not only far out of proportion but almost shamefully unnecessary...
...basically exhibition predictions it's time for the real thing. I regret that I haven't been doing better than 600 in my picks, but those of you who follow the comes will notice that for the first time in modern comic strip history, the Jackson Twins were wrong too. And it Jan and Jill can give some bad advice. I figure those of us who are less perfect are entitled to an occasional error...
...John Marshall Harlan, the Warren court's most frequent dissenter against the use of judicial solutions for social problems. The Burger court, more often than not, may find itself espousing Harlan's judicial philosophy, which Dershowitz says is "You don't reverse decisions no matter how wrong you think they...
...information by means of electronic sensors, then slips the money to the customer through another slot. It keeps the card, which is returned by mail. The withdrawal is deducted from the depositor's checking account, along with a 1% service charge. If a card holder punches the wrong code number or tries to use an invalid card, a lighted notice tells him to try again. If he is unsuccessful on the third try, the machine swallows his card. That allows the bank to determine whether he used a canceled card or merely punched the wrong code number...
...voting on Lipset's motion for recess-which failed by only one vote-was confused. Both proponents and opponents of formally approving the withdrawal resolution inadvertently found themselves voting the wrong...