Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moriarty said that he could only interpret the Faculty's decision on ROTC as withdrawing ROTC's "invitation" to remain at Harvard. He added that the Faculty is mistaken if it expects NROTC to violate Federal law or to go to Congress to change...
...Democrats. Some look forward to new coalitions, even to Richard Nixon--or at least Farmer does. He wants the black man to become "unwedded from the machine," to use his ballot as a "swing vote" that would reward friends and punish enemies. "Black people," he says, "unless I am mistaken, don't want to be loved. They want to be respected...
...Negro's behalf. Still, in 1967, when Hubert Humphrey urged a "Marshall plan" for impoverished areas following the Detroit riots, Johnson quashed that kind of talk. And when the Kerner Commission last year made ambitious recommendations for helping the Negro-findings that could easily have been mistaken for earlier Johnsonian rhetoric -the President pouted in silence, apparently construing his own commission's work as a reproach to himself...
...contest with the gentlemen from Dallas, that fine Cowboy running back, Mr. Craig Baynham, happened to fumble a kickoff return. We may have been mistaken, but it appeared to us that one of our players recovered the football. The referee, however, awarded the ball to Dallas. Of course, we in no way mean to impugn the integrity of our esteemed officials. Rather, we note this seeming discrepancy only in the interest of bettering football-and good sportsmanship-everywhere...
...escaped convict from California who had been using the alias of George D. Deacon, and Ruth Eisemann Schier, 26, a green-eyed blonde who was said to be a graduate of the National University of Mexico. A petite 5 ft. 3 in., Miss Schier may have been mistaken for a boy by Mrs. Mackle and for a young man by the Miami police...