Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left in America's old cold war calls to arms in the name of defending freedom around the globe. America's national morale curdled and began tumbling off into the unthinkable. The true unthinkable was that "Amerika," as those on the New Left dubbed it, was not merely mistaken or even bad, but evil. The mild unthinkable, entertained probably by most, was that the nation had made a bad mistake. Americans, who love a winner, detest thinking of themselves as losers, and they saw themselves distinctly as losers after Tet. Metaphysically, they may have thought that if America...
Denial extends to affluent communities as well. Police are often easily intimidated by a husband's clout in the community. Doctors turn away well-off women in the mistaken belief that they are simply overwrought or exaggerating. When a Los Angeles woman who endured weekly beatings throughout a 31-year marriage finally confided in her physician, she says, "he just looked at me strangely and changed the subject. Professionals don't want to admit that they, as a group, are not perfect...
...successful outcome of the Deaver trial should not be mistaken as a resolution of the more serious problem which brought about the appointment of an independent counsel in the first place," Whitney North Seymour Jr. said in a statement...
Summits embody a noble human conceit, one that seems particularly American: that the world's conflicts are caused by misunderstandings and mistaken perceptions. If we sit down and talk, we can clear things up. Like most noble conceits, there is some truth to it. Summitry serves to lower the world's blood pressure. The two most powerful leaders on the planet smile at each other; somehow it seems that the rumbling forces of history, filled with clashing values and national interests, might thus be tamed. And like most conceits, there is some danger: neither the President nor the public should...
...people were laughing at the bartender quarterbacking the Bears, the stockbroker directing the Packers, at eleven sacks against one offensive line and a kickoff mistaken for a punt. Four punts were blocked for touchdowns. But the football was not as demonstrably bad as all that, just demonstrably not the best. Competition may be relative, but excellence fairly requires the stiffest opposition of the day. And excellence is the fundamental allure of sport. At the same time, the damage to the integrity of the statistics and the standings is probably being exaggerated. Traditionalists at first appalled by Gary Hogeboom's record...