Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Students Against War in the Middle East think that Texaco executives and American automobile owners are the only people who owe their livelhood to the flow of oil, they are tragically mistaken. Every dollar added to the price of oil means billions of dollars of foreign exchange lost by oil-importing Third World nations and the struggling democracies of Eastern Europe. Oil can only be purchased in hard currency, a frightfully scarce resource in all of these countries...
...small detail. By the time the twins were arrested three days after the incident, both had short haircuts. Storton still insists it was Jonathan. But one of the defense attorneys, Chris Carroll, predicts that "there will be substantial evidence submitted at the trial to show that the officer was mistaken about the identity of the biter...
...classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors (as in preposterous). And at Eton -- and only at Eton -- academic quarters are called halves, making three halves in a school year (though the midpoint of each is "long leave," since half-halves could be mistaken for quarters...
WHAT baffles me the most is President Derek C. Bok's role in the SAT reform. I guess I must have been under the mistaken impression that Harvard was found of elitist, basically unexplainable traditions...
Cambridge natives and students alike might well have mistaken Harold Olejarz for any other middle-aged commuter passing through Harvard Square yesterday afternoon, if it weren't for the rubber suit...