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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never seen people get as angry as Roger and I get." Nor are the fights confined to the TV cameras. On a recent plane trip, Siskel was trying to teach Ebert to play Michigan rummy. At one point, Ebert accused Siskel of throwing a card into the wrong pile. Siskel denied it, and Ebert suddenly tossed up his seat tray. "That's it," he cried. "No more cards!" Hmmm. Conflict, characters you can identify with -- definitely a thumbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: It Stinks! You're Crazy! | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams and 17th century English Legal Scholar and Judge Sir Edward Coke. Her well-known work Miracle at Philadelphia vividly described the making of the U.S. Constitution. "She cared very much about right and wrong, but not once did she talk to me directly about it," says Bowen. "She was a silent force who set an example in her own living I cannot forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: May 25, 1987 | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Porter says companies either chose the wrong businesses or overspent for them. He gives low marks to CBS, which had shed 87% of the businesses it acquired in the 30-year period; and RCA, now a unit of General Electric, which had dropped 80%. Why do so many executives diversify? Porter shrugs, saying, "They're drawn like moths to the flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACQUISITIONS: Like Moths To the Flame | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...wrong." Ernie said. "The U.S. doesn't sell decent aircraft to Third World countries. The Mirage is the only...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: A Shot in the Stark | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

WHEN I was six, I learned that it is wrong to do something bad. When I was 14, I learned that it's okay to do something wrong, as long as you don't get caught. Recently I learned from the Senate that it's okay to do something wrong and it's okay to get caught, as long as the prosecutors think you have someone else to incriminate...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Coddling Crooks, Missile Envy | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

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