Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White and Blue is an excellent example of Randall Jarrell's definition of the novel as a long narrative that has something wrong with it. Tightly made in its parts, the book sags as a whole. Dunne, a journalist and, with Wife Joan Didion, writer of such filmscripts as A Star Is Born and True Confessions, seems to have put his notebooks, filing cabinet and even his sock drawer to good use. His descriptions of courtrooms and Hollywood living rooms suggest nimble legwork and a fine ear. Agent to agent: "You can say what you want about communism, but those...
...when it came, was brutally abrupt for Donald T. Regan. Sitting in his office Friday afternoon, the chief of staff pronounced himself vindicated by the Tower report: "1,250 lines on 'What Was Wrong' and I'm mentioned in 15, less than 2%," he declared. He confided to TIME Correspondents David Beckwith and Barrett Seaman that he planned to resign Monday, on his own schedule. But he was clearly unsettled. No, he didn't know who his successor would be, and no, he hadn't been invited to a Reagan summit that night to discuss presidential strategy...
...that would give the nation and world a renewed sense of leadership and prevent the last 23 months of his term from becoming a limping and possibly dangerous procession into the twilight? Perhaps. But it will involve conveying to the American people that he now, finally, understands what went wrong and what mistakes he made, and providing convincing assurances that they won't happen again. The real necessity is that Reagan become again the active, engaged President he was at times, though only at times, during the first term. That will require that he change the habits of a lifetime...
Even if skillfully executed, the arms-for-hostages policy would still have been wrong. Such trades "could not help but create an incentive for further hostage-. . . They could only remove inhibitions on other nations from selling arms to Iran . . . ((The)) trades rewarded a regime that clearly supported terrorism and hostage-taking...
...point man for Iranscam's excesses, the Tower commission blames Poindexter for failing to restrain his aide in carrying out what were, after all, presidential policies. "Poindexter's own bent for operations aided and abetted rather than compensated for North," Commission Member Brent Scowcroft told TIME. "There's nothing wrong with having a 'cowboy' working for you, but you have to keep the reins tight...