Word: wrongfully
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However, in the past month there has been a lot going wrong in the world. Now, I don't worry that our world is about to end, but I am interested in the number of natural disasters that have occurred in the past few months. America was gripped by the worst heat wave and drought in decades. Hurricane Gilbert, considered the most violent storm nature can produce, has caused thousands in Texas to evacuate the Gulf coast and billions of dollars worth of damage in Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. In Bangladesh, some 40,000 homes have been destroyed...
Never before had the world received so stunning a glimpse of a Soviet space crisis. Cramped inside a tiny capsule 155 miles above the earth, Commander Vladimir Lyakhov radioed mission control that something was desperately wrong. Seated beside him was a hastily trained Afghan cosmonaut, Abdul Ahad Mohmand. Replied a ground controller: "How are things with food?" Lyakhov: "There is no food." Controller: "What about the emergency rations?" Lyakhov: "They are there, but why touch them? We will be patient," he added, noting that there was no way to rid themselves of wastes...
Sefika Ali, 20, a pretty Kurdish woman in a soiled yellow dress, was cooking breakfast for her husband and three children when she heard the sound of aircraft. The Iraqi warplanes started dropping bombs on Butia, the village in northern Iraq where she lived. "I felt something wrong in my eyes, and I started to vomit," she says. "We knew what it must be, so we all drank a lot of milk and then...
Investigators late last week were still trying to determine precisely what went wrong. As they combed the wreckage at the site, a controversy erupted on both sides of the Atlantic over the safety rules governing air shows and the propriety of holding aerial maneuvers of any kind near civilian populations. Many critics called for a complete ban on shows, citing a list of 13 accidents in Europe during the past six years that have taken the lives of more than 110 people, most of them civilians. A bare 25 minutes before the Ramstein accident, horrified spectators watched a Finnish pilot...
...period of evangelistic fervor, during which she was a Billy Graham counselor, before she finally settled into the Anglican church. Her faith created much apprehension among doctors when St. Christopher's first opened. "We suspected she wanted to produce deathbed conversions," says Consulting Psychiatrist Colin Murray Parkes. "How wrong we were." Insists Dame Cicely: "There's an absolutely built-in rule that there are no religious pressures here...