Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress itself violates the most elementary rules of conduct. In the early 1960s, for example, Missouri Senator Edward Long accepted $160,000 from a lawyer who had spent most of his life representing gangsters and gamblers. Finally persuaded to look into the matter, the Senate ethics committee found nothing wrong...
Saying so hardly made the going great. Jenkins reported out a gloomy budget for 1969-70. Then Crossman casually announced that the government was raising by 25% the price of dentures and spectacles obtained through the National Health Service. Everything about the announcement by Crossman was wrong. It was released right on the eve of local elections in which. Labor's chances were poor to begin with, and it seemed almost calculated to rile the very backbenchers who had organized the abortive revolt. Worst of all, it reminded everyone in both parties that back in 1951 a similar charge...
...salt water -they could begin to spread and multiply. Most scientists agree that the chances of life on the moon are remote, and some believe that any moon organisms would have reached the earth long ago on particles ejected from the moon during meteor impacts. If they are wrong, however, and Apollo 11 returns to earth with unexpected visitors, NASA's revised plans may well be inadequate to cope with them...
Ironically, just as the minority abandons it, the masses begin to fawn upon its fifty-year-old innovation for the wrong reasons. Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, and Schoenberg were regarded, with varying vehemence, as musical antichrists, Yet now that they are heard, with deadening frequency, they are widely caricatured as rebels or prophets, venerable and unapproachable. They are accorded all honors except the simple duty of critical listening. As Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan laments upon realizing that her belated 1910 canonization was due to a stupid society's mute guilt rather than its compassion: "Woe to him whom...
...rationality and freedom, we also deplore the entry of police into any university." In general, the entire faculty felt the forcible occupation of University Hall deplorable. With respect to the police action, some members of the faculty felt the use of force to vacate the building to be wrong whereas others considered it to be unavoidable but regrettable. Nonetheless, the faculty passed the resolution almost unanimously...