Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy explained, was supposed to have climbed to 300-400 miles, then gone into its orbit. Instead, the second-stage engine failed to cut off, kept the Vanguard going up instead of letting it turn parallel to the earth's surface. When the third stage fired at the wrong angle, the rocket just kept on going-straight up to 2,200 miles. The Navy's reading of Cape Canaveral instruments showed that the satellite landed near the west coast of South Africa, 7,500 miles from Florida-if, that is, the whole thing did not burn up when...
...this vacation summer, nearly all the scars of war and memory seem to have faded. Occasionally a Frenchman will take malicious delight in giving a German the wrong directions, or a Dutchman will leave a café when it fills up with tourists in Lederhosen and Tyrolean hats. In Yugoslavia the Germans are welcome, if only because they assist Yugoslavia's acutely short consumer-goods market by selling their belongings as they go along. Observed an elderly Serb in Belgrade: "Germans can cross the border with a normal amount of personal belongings, spend a month here and return without...
What seemed to irritate Stempel the most was the occasional insistence that he give a wrong answer. "I was forced to admit that I didn't know where the Taj Mahal is; I was forced to say that Gothic architecture originated in Germany when I know damn well it was France. See, that's the trend now: a big winner will have to flub the easy ones to make the American public look good." Eventually, said Herb, Enright told him, "We've reached a plateau. We need a new face." Herb was forced to lose...
...duty of practising sexual intercourse as an expression of their love. Though intercourse is not "the only language of earthly love." it is certainly the most intimate; "it has the depth of communication signified by the Biblical word so often used for it, 'knowledge' . . ." Therefore it is wrong to shackle sex to the conception of children...
...control, which saw almost all the company's stock taken out of circulation. Originally, the shorts had sold at a price of about $42, expecting the stock to decline because book value and earnings indicated a price closer to $30 a share. They guessed wrong. Trying to oust the Bruce family management, which owns 31% of the 314,600 shares outstanding, New York Manufacturer Edward Gilbert and his associates began buying, sent the price to $77 by June. More than 280,000 shares were traded, including at least 16,000 short sales. So badly squeezed were the shorts that...