Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev himself continued his campaign against the "personality cult" when at a Kiev meeting his agricultural policies were openly criticized by an agronomist and he replied breezily that orders must not be obeyed unthinkingly: "I can be mistaken." But there were signs that the anti-Stalinist drive was having dangerous side effects. Central Committee Secretary Leonid Ilyichev took pains to warn a convention of 2,700 party propagandists that anti-Stalinism must not lead to questioning the Marxist-Leninist system itself or to opposing the right kind of leadership...
Hoffmann pointed to three errors in pronouncements of disarmament groups: an overestimation of the likelihood of war, a mistaken belief in the defensive character and limited objectives of Soviet policy, and an inordinate press on survival as a goal of American region policy...
When U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. called on him in Saigon, he discovered that Diem was laboring under what Washington calls "several mistaken ideas" as a result of his talks with Taylor, which basically added up to the notion that nothing should or could be done in the way of domestic reforms before the military situation has been improved. Besides, added Diem, he could not broaden his regime and delegate authority because he could not trust his ministers...
Lush & Cool. Opened in 1912 after complex litigation, Rice is so rich (net worth: $101 million) that it charges no tuition, and so picks only top students. Long mistaken for a pure engineering school, Rice in fact is a fount of the humanities. Though Rice students endure Math 100, a required trial in orderly thinking, the majority wind up in liberal arts...
...dreamer who knew the longings of ordinary men-to stuff their wives and put them on the mantelpiece, to bet the old plantation on an uncaught ace, while the paddle wheel goes pocketa-pocketa. He was a bad artist who drew wonderful, lumpy dogs, and was often mistaken for one of them by strangers who had never seen him throw a highball glass...