Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What's wrong with this," DeConcini demanded, "if they're willing to clean up their act?" Replied the agent: "This is a ticking time bomb...
...might be able to fit a child into their Filofax schedules? Or the chain-smoking unmarrieds of the underclass, with lives of noisy desperation awaiting them like so many episodes of Married . . . With Children? In a society where childless can still be a near synonym for lifeless, are the "wrong" people having too many kids? Are there any right parents...
...think should be off limits to development because of its vulnerability to hurricanes. She was unable to watch televised reports about the quake. Now she and her husband Johnny have made an optimistic choice. "We have decided that we are going to repair the house even if it is wrong," she vows. "We are going home...
...word is out, according to the September 21 issue of The Boston Globe, that--in the by-now archetypal and wrong-minded battle between Freud's famous lieben and arbeiten (love and work)--arbeiten has finally scored a decisive victory...
...bedroom or the wedding chapel. For it is only recently, and only in America, I believe, that love has come to be seen as a social and economic soporific, a kind of Quaalude to the energies of career, politics and other achievement. And Willa Cather, I believe, was very wrong in describing what she called "that secondary social man, the lover." Rather it seems to me that the love of a single person--passionate, devoted, consuming, honoring...human--is the fuel that drives and deepens all other social passions and commitments, which connects us to the species...