Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Senator proclaimed "great respect for the academic mind," he reminded the audience that academics were often mistaken. "If Harris's argument is valid, that a $10 billion deficit is good enough, why stop at $10 billion? Let's go to $25 billion, or $30 billion? Let's just print the money...
...told me the truth, and I believe it, but if you think I don't love Cliff all the more for hearing it, you're mistaken. Because I see how much more he needed the little love anyone could give. He was unhappier than we knew...
...psychosomatic illnesses often mistaken for heart attacks, asthma or pregnancy complications...
...suggested that Harvard policies are symptomatic of a nation-wide prejudice against fat people. "There is a mistaken belief that obesity is due to a lack of will power or to personal negligence," Mayer said. "I strongly oppose such moralistic attitudes. Obesity is a medical, not a moral problem...
...some naive quarters, the mistaken belief is held that spring is here. This is a misleading doctrine and the adherents of it are guilty of perhaps-handedness, albeit a weak and deviationist variant. Since objective meterological evidence clearly proves that spring is not here and cannot ever be here, the belief that it is spring constitutes a victims and criminal act whose divisive influence all students are urged to combat...