Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more and more Zulus have been forced into the suburbs. Confronted by the bullying Tsotsis, the Zulus stuck together, fought back in the trains, and often ambushed the Tsotsis themselves in the streets. The Zulus had a few gangsters of their own. Sometimes they made mistakes and attacked the wrong men. Soon the Zulus were embroiled with members of the Basuto tribe, which includes, besides many an honest workingman, a secret society of gangsters who call themselves "the Russians...
...Addressing a congress on family problems, he reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's longstanding position that while second marriages by widows are not wrong, it is preferable that widows do not marry.* Said the Pope (who made no reference to widowers): The church has "a special predilection for the widows who remain faithful to their husbands . . . The dead who see God face to face cannot tolerate in those they have loved . . . inconsistent attachment. What poor human consolation can equal the grandeur of widowhood when it is turned into a means of continuing a union and perpetuating the graces...
...Right or Wrong. The major difference between the old McGuffey and the new is the technique of teaching moral principles. McGuffey did not hesitate to spell out the point of his stories: e.g., the idle boy is almost invariably poor and miserable; the industrious boy is happy and prosperous. Dr. Ullin W. Leavell, "senior author" of the Modern McGuffey Readers, realized that today's schoolboy is too sophisticated to sit still for such out-of-date preaching. The Golden Rule Series only suggests the principle in its stories, lets the teacher bring out the point in discussions. The stories...
...especially fond of Thomas Campbell's poem Lord Ullin's Daughter, which they had read as children in a McGuffey reader. For years Leavell has argued for a new version of old values. "It takes no more time to teach the child the phrase 'right or wrong,'" he says, "than it does 'quack, quack...
...thrown off the account. Now executive editor of the Catholic Digest, McCarthy, who still has dirty fingernails, says freely and even admiringly: "Charlie is a genius. He is also a bombastic, terribly hardworking, frantic guy who just chews people .up. Unless you can bully him when he's wrong, you're through." McCarthy wonderingly describes an agency meeting with Client Revson: "It started in the afternoon. Around 7 a waiter from Longchamps came in to serve his dinner. Not a crumb of food was offered to anyone else at the table. The meeting went on through the night...