Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then he really warmed up: "If the distinguished savant from Michigan State College, or anybody else for that matter, believes that the Army National Guard can be built up and maintained by assigning it to a home-guard role in the national-defense system, he has never been more mistaken in his life, and the entire National Guard, Army and Air, will resist to the utmost the imposition of any such concept...
...Season. In Springfield, Minn., Alfred Schneider, arrested for threatening a woman on a street corner with a knife, was released after he told police he had mistaken her for his wife...
...Confidential Clerk wears a full-length farcical overcoat; on the outside, all is mistaken identity and mixed-up parentage. It opens with Sir Claude Mulhammer, a financier who yearns to be a potter, taking on as private secretary his illegitimate son, Colby Simpkins-a young man who yearns to be an organist. If Sir Claude's wife, Lady Elizabeth, should take a liking to Colby, Sir Claude means to adopt him. Already part of the household are Lucasta Angel, his illegitimate daughter, and B. (for Barnabas) Kaghan, a foundling whom Lucasta plans to marry. Lady Elizabeth...
Johnnie Walker, Red. The faint suggestion of a smile worked at the corners of Molotov's mouth as he left the third day's proceedings: Was he mistaken, or had Britain and France seemed not quite so anxious as the U.S. to shut him up and move on? At the delegates' bar, where Eden and Bidault sipped cocktails and Dulles munched a sandwich, Molotov confidently downed two shots of Johnnie Walker (Red Label...
...city of 637,392, even down to the theft of a few chickens; and 2) covering national and world news with meticulous thoroughness. To European visitors, and even Americans from cities much bigger than Milwaukee, the Journal is often a sharp surprise, for it confounds both the mistaken idea that the American Midwest is a wellspring of unrelieved isolationism or that "provincial" journalism must indeed be provincial...