Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taiwan's vitality, Fairbank reasoned, depended as much on cultural freedom from Americanization as on political autonomy. He warned Washington against helping Taiwan "too much in the wrong ways...
...first time this year, the varsity soccer team had a bad day at the wrong time. A fired-up Princeton team, playing its best game of the year on its home field, capitalized on some weak defensive play by the Crimson...
They were wrong, of course, but tradition being the nice thing that it is, they kept on with Armistice Day until finally nobody could think up any original speeches about why there weren't any armistices any more. So they changed the name to Veterans...
...late Merchant Prince Marshall Field, son of the late Baron Beatty of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet and dashing hero of Jutland, who is famed for his remark to a flag officer, after seeing two of his cruisers go down: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
...sentimental old sweetie-pie with a heart almost as big as his sneer, who passes out diamond-crusted cigarette cases as if they were candy bars, gets a schoolboy crush on a studio still of Jean Harlow, and in fact has only one fault. He frequently rubs people the wrong way: out. The Big Mouthpiece (Robert Taylor), with his white-piped vests and pencil-line mustache, looks like a proper pallbearer at Dion O'Banion's funeral. The Chorus Girl (Cyd Charisse) is overwearily underworldly...