Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Valentines and Veritas" by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (News, Feb. 13): Besides the fact that no Caucasians and hardly any men were cited in the article (implying that interracial relationships are a minority women's issue), the author failed to modify an obviously mistaken quotation...
Mike Hoolihan, as her name and the conventions of the genre might suggest, is a big, blowsy, chain-smoking ex-alcoholic of a cop, a woman usually mistaken for a man, and one who has seen more than her fair share of hard knocks. She lives in an American city that could be anywhere--it has a harbor, a university and a wrong side of the tracks--and the train that runs beneath her building disrupts her dreams. She was abused by her father, and the other men in her life were a bunch of "woman-haters and woman-hitters...
...been mistaken in thinking the "vast right-wing conspiracy" mentioned by Hillary Clinton would have long-term appeal for Hobart. "If she had changed that to 'creepy little cabal,' I might have gone for it," he told me. "It's true that this wouldn't have got to the point of subpoenas without Richard Mellon Scaife and his fevered friends. But they didn't put Monica Lewinsky in the White House. Of course, the guy who recommended her, Walter Kaye, is a particular friend of Hillary Clinton's, but I never figured Hillary for the engineer of this. Wronged wife...
This is hilarious even if you don't live in the South, where blood-filled mosquitoes are often mistaken for bats...
...mistaken, the generation currently in power is the same one which 35 years ago was preaching against increased government intervention in their lives. What happened to the days of free love? Is it that easy to forget what you once stood for? But, more worrisome, is it that easy to forget reality? When the drinking age in this country was merely 18, was there an over-abundance of teenage death? What makes alcohol more dangerous for an 18-year-old than for a 21-year-old? The problem here is not underage drinking but obsessive and excessive drinking...