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Word: wrongs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk about standards. Perhaps I used the wrong word before. How can you talk about Kiss Me, Kate and apply standards? Look, you have a simple story about a director, Fred Graham, and his ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi who are putting on a performance of The Taming of the Shrew. You see their backstage shenanigans as well as their performances in the play. We threw in a couple of gangsters because they're always funny. But that's not a quality story by any means. With my music and some dancing, however, it works very well on stage...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Strange, Dear, But True, Dear | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

What else was wrong with the Kirkland production...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Strange, Dear, But True, Dear | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...findings alone are not conclusive enough to suggest that nuclear power is "too dangerous to permit it to continue and expand as a form of power generation." Perhaps. But combined with the problems of nuclear waste disposal, the possibility that nuclear material used in a plant could reach the wrong hands and the as yet unknown dangers of low-level radiation leaks, the commission's findings emphasize the need to abandon nuclear power as a future energy source...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accidents Will Happen | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...pretty fed up with not being able to maintain a normal workout schedule," Forman recalls. "It wasn't as if I could just work around my injury because everytime I tried something else went wrong...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Versatile Runner Recovers to Pace Harriers | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...fill the room. There is an introduction--a slew of Greek words--and a smiling "Thank You, Mike," from Timilty. The candidate is in a dark blue pinstripe suit and blue shirt, replete with sideburns struggling to complete the Jerry Brown young-but-responsible look. The voice is all wrong--too high--bouncing off the yellow and beige walls in the basement...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Joe Timilty's Lonely Campaign | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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