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Word: wrongs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black violence, if understandable, is still wrong, particularly because the victims are generally black. As Silberman writes...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Thinking About Crime | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...ballet bars, they stretched and flexed their legs, loosening hamstring and groin muscles that are always vulnerable to injury. In slow, progressive steps, they worked kinks out of their necks and backs. A perfunctory round of jumping-jack hops is the only recognizable survivor from football calisthenics past. "The wrong kind of exercise can cause injury," Verbruggen notes. "Deep knee bends alone are all right, but those duck-walks you always see teams doing will tear more cartilage in the knee than any game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: Trying to Make Football Injury-Free | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...place on the ballot. Perkins' chances of winning were never good, but they got even worse when he was tossed in jail for assaulting a woman bus driver. Undaunted, he pointed out: "We've had plenty of Congressmen who ended up in jail. What's wrong with one who started in jail?" The voters thought otherwise. On election night, Perkins consoled himself by showing up, unshaven and wearing his stained wool overcoat, at a Democratic victory celebration. The reason: free beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Happy Hobo | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

What's wrong with the Arab demand for sovereignty over East Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Thoughts of a Famous Mayor | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...they are probably wrong. Smith and the white minority of 240,000 who rule over Rhodesia--and over the nearly six million Africans who reside within its boundaries--have beaten the odds for 13 years, and they are doing their darndest to stay in power. True, Rhodesia is closer to a change in rule--either through the domestic process outlined by an "interim agreement" signed in March, or by the intervention of Front troops led by Joseph Nkomo and Robert Mugabe--than it has ever been. But it is likely that Smith and his cohorts will hang on a while...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Rhodesia: Old Smithie Hangs On | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

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