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Word: wrongful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...menacing than Nikita Khrushchev's -- he of the take-no-prisoners promise to "bury" us. We suspected that real success might produce an economic giant capable of dwarfing even our ally Japan, but we rooted anyway. And of course, since Tiananmen Square, we have wondered what went so drastically wrong. How could any regime shoot unarmed citizens in its own capital, an action violative of a rule of governance so obvious that not even Machiavelli felt compelled to write it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...whether or not you feel that's wrong you should still see the film...

Author: By Kit Troyer, | Title: Shooting Black and White | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

...fortunate enough that he guessed the wrong way," Semioli said...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Stanford Slips Men Booters, 2-1 | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

Some students agree that it is important for drugs to be exorcized from inner cities. But if students want their attitudes to be taken seriously in inner-city communities, they should take an equally bold stand against the casual use of less dangerous drugs. Someone who says it is wrong for a 20-year-old economically disadvantaged gang member to deal crack as a way to earn money, but overlooks a privileged Harvard sophomore who buys and sells hash for his or her personal use, is being hypocritical...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Joining the War on Drugs | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...wrong...

Author: By Gloria M. Custodio, | Title: Pushing Against Apathy | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

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