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Word: wronging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is much that is wrong in our society: and you, if you have the courage to see it, are in an ideal position to bring those wrongs to the public eye. We should like to have a king who is not afraid to speak out against hypocrisy and inhumanity as your father has spoken out against stupidity and inefficiency. We should like a Prince who can tell our elders that the long-haired layabouts who haunt their suburban nightmares are not necessarily destructive ogres, but sometimes human beings who are more concerned with men than with money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Letter to Charles | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...comeback. While working his way through three years of preliminary matches, he swam daily laps and boned up on Psychological Analysis of a Chess Player's Thought by Nikolai Krogius, his mentor. Nonetheless, in the opening match of the 24-game title series, he inadvertently touched the wrong piece and, obliged by the rules to move it, lost the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chess: Tigran and the Tiger | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

Despite the extravagant quality of Delacorte's "gift to the city," the city was somewhat less than grateful. The New York Times cited crucial needs that the money might have better served, instead of going "literally down the drain," and wrote off the donor as "the wrong-way Corrigan of New York philanthropy." Delacorte paid no mind. "The fountain," he said last week, "is my greatest landmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memorials: Giving a Geyser | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

Every top Hollywood columnist needs a rival with whom to feud, and Haber has found one in Rona Barrett, a TV gossipist for the Metromedia stations. She watches the Barrett show with competitive pride. "Oh, that's all wrong," Haber will scoff at one of Rona's items. Or "I had that but didn't use it." In her success, Haber may face a danger. It was she who wrote in an unkind piece on Barbra Streisand: "Once you are a superstar, there are two choices open to you: you can become a bore or a monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Return of the Gossip | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

University students are sober, dedicated, enterprising, business-minded. Wrong? No, quite right-in Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finland: The Student Capitalists | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

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