Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told the New York Times that he was innocent of wrongdoing. Also served was Michael Singer, 37, a former Jefferies senior vice president who | switched in October to the Manhattan-based Salomon Brothers investment firm. Singer resigned his new post last week, but said, "I have done nothing wrong...
...dimmed. No furniture levitated. No unearthly dust blew through the room. What is more, the Houdini contacted by Monroe bungled the answers to questions posed by members of the inner circle. "What was your favorite dessert?" Marie Blood, the great magician's niece, wanted to know. "Strawberry," gasped Monroe. "Wrong," chided Mrs. Blood, who traveled all the way from Pinehurst, N.C., for the occasion. "It was bread pudding," she informed the audience, "with Bing cherries...
...least the Chicago Bears know what has technically been wrong with Jim McMahon, the most erudite of their four quarterbacks, who has written one book and read several others. He has a slight tear in the rotator cuff of his right shoulder. McMahon said, "I knew something was in there," though two arthroscopic examinations were required to find it. Missing him for six of eleven games, Coach Mike Ditka had frankly grown dubious. "Can you hear that?" whispered the quarterback, jiggling his bad handle. "It sounds like somebody's walking around in wet shoes...
Flutie is starting to feel like a Bear. "I was never a Chicago fan. I mean, I didn't even know all the names. I knew Walter Payton's, of course. But I had to be introduced to (Defensive End) Dan Hampton." For turning the wrong way on a hand-off and missing an open receiver in the end zone, Flutie was toasted by his teammates with choke signs all around. But the spirit was amazingly warm. "When I first came into the huddle, everyone's head kind of popped up, and they all smiled as if to say, 'Here...
...they must have boiled it wrong this time, because what the Times really said was it cost $27,600 for the hotel rooms, with the rest of it for food. I decided to stick with the $37,000 figure, since from what I hear it is very hard to get the President to change an anecdote once he gets it down...