Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artful melange of reductions already taken and some for the future, and he accompanied them with the warning that they would cause an "inevitable weakening of our worldwide military posture." That helped placate his officers, put the principal onus on Congress for the cuts if anything should go wrong, and preserve the credit for Richard Nixon if all goes well. At the same press conference, Laird moved to bring to a halt the wrangling over a military-contingency plan that the U.S. signed with Thailand in 1965. "It does not have my approval...
...wrong for a Kennedy to invoke the family image in a time of crisis? After all, he is part of it, and even millions of jealous Americans cannot deny that fact. Americans hate the Kennedys alive and then adore them in death. They forget that even now, Edward Kennedy's skill symbolizes to the world the strength of character, youth, burning intelligence and compassion of all America...
...League has gone to considerable lengths to detect the fix, relying, ironically, on Gil Beckley. Apparently the league operated on the theory that it takes one to know one. "I want the games square," Beckley told league officials when he announced his proposition. "If I know that something's wrong, I'll give you the name of the club. But I won't give you names of the players." Tips from Beckley have touched off a number of secret investigations by the league...
...badly equipped to deal with that old dilemma-how to sell yourself and save yourself at the same time. Sex equals money equals power seems to be a simple enough show-business equation. But even in this crocodile world, as Renek shows, personal feelings and gestures intruding at the wrong time suddenly shift the balance of power-a smile of appreciation at an inopportune stage of contract negotiations, or the loss of aggressive edge through private preoccupation, can be a minor disaster. In show business, Siam's psychiatrist suggests, the cost of success to the aspiring individual is protective...
Archer's professional progress is also impeded by his, and his creator's, strivings to bring home to each and every hapless character the wrong turnings in his past. One longs for Chandler's jaunty, corpse-chasing Philip Marlowe: "Murder-a-Day Marlowe, they call him. They have the meat wagon following him around to follow up the business he finds...