Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even the Red army's authentic hero Marshal Zhukov. But Khrushchev's elemental knowledge of the people told him that the Soviet's rising technology needed some freedom from terror, and he set a new course of demote, not destroy; prosper, not starve. "It is not wrong," said he, as he laid claim to be Communism's first popular leader, "to throw in a piece of bacon and a piece of butter in the course of improving the theory of Marx." And Khrushchev's cloistered view of capitalism persuaded him that he could change...
...over again," says Beck of his past, "the only thing different I would do would be to keep much better records." Otherwise Dave Beck, going on 66, stoutly protests that "I haven't done a single, solitary thing wrong." Adds he fervently: "May my dear mother not draw another breath if this...
...drag Christians down. "I used to say to a Christian, 'I got a pot of money and a bottle of whisky in the Cadillac. Let's get a couple of broads and go down to Hot Springs for the weekend.' Oh friend, that was so wrong...
...American Jews," says Hertzberg, "do not look to the church down the street as the bearer of a pure faith, undefiled by what is wrong with contemporary America-if only because its minister is quite likely to be telling all who will listen that the struggle for piety is as hard a fight among Christians as among Jews. There can be camaraderie in this battle, but there is no overwhelming evidence that it is more nearly won at one end of the street than at the other...
...founded the "Mission to Paris." Specially trained young priests began to take jobs in factories to pursue their evangelizing mission more effectively; wearing overalls, they held fulltime jobs, said Mass and performed other pastoral duties during off hours. By 1953, it was obvious that something had gone wrong: of almost 150 worker-priests, some 20 had married and left the church while others had joined Communist unions or Redline causes. Pope Pius XII sternly limited les prêtres-ouvriers to three hours of factory life a day, but only a handful submitted; others left the church, and only...