Word: mistaken
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Hidden Step. For all her declination toward the horizontal, Sally Jay is not all bed. In her ruefully recounted odyssey among the oddballs, she is often comically appealing. Desperately worried lest she be mistaken for the sort of girl tourist who debarks with a guidebook and a six-month supply of toilet paper, Sally Jay manages a world-weary yawn even when she feels like yipping for joy. She thanks an Italian seducer who wants to marry her to get a nonexistent dowry. Why? "For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it." Only when she falls...
...hero of Là-Bas is a novelist named Durtal, who is doing research into the monstrous life of Gilles de Rais, often mistaken for the original Bluebeard.*A dedicated researcher, Durtal himself dabbles in the same black arts that Gilles de Rais practiced- for De Rais, found guilty of murder and executed in 1440, seems to have attracted disciples in 19th century Paris. The core of their infamy is the bizarre and blasphemous rite known as the Black Mass, in which every imaginable obscenity is committed and the Eucharist itself is invoked to bring the celebrants closer...
...vocation" to become a nuclear power. They tried to suggest, from their own experience, how costly nuclear weaponry could get (De Gaulle, in talks with John Foster Dulles later in the week, counted on the U.S. to help out with know-how and materials). Apparently British "sympathy" was mistaken for support. MACMILLAN: YES TO FRENCH ABOMB, crowed the Paris-Journal, to the discomfiture of the British delegation...
After the war, McConaughy worked as TIME's bureau chief in Ottawa and Seattle, but it was on Washington's Capitol Hill that he found his real home. Often mistaken by tourists for a Senator, McConaughy liked the members of Congress, and they liked him. He averaged about five miles a day walking down congressional corridors into congressional offices, was a welcome guest in congressional homes, an after-hours regular in the private sanctums of Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He played a leading part in covering...
...Prodded by newsmen at a press conference, McElroy comments on Burke's dissent: "I am disappointed in him, regard it as regrettable. I think he's a fine officer. I am sorry he's mistaken in this respect." In testifying on the Administration's reorganization proposals, declares McElroy, military officers should bear in mind the President's publicly and emphatically expressed views...