Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...columnists.") One thing Correspondent McConaughy can predict, however, is his usual preferential treatment at the beginning of. a Congress, when many of the elevator operators and Capitol policemen are new on their jobs. McConaughy. 38, and a big six-footer with a shock of grey hair, is often mistaken for a Congressman himself. For a few days he enjoys the luxury of a cop stopping traffic and waving him through a red light, or an elevator operator whisking him directly to the floor he wants. Then he becomes an ordinary correspondent again, pounding his marble-floored beat and listening...
...forefathers wrote into the constitution the privilege of the Fifth Amendment to provide for protection which good citizens may sometimes sorely need. Innocent people who feel the threat of false, mistaken, or overzealous prosecution because of unpopular opinions have every right to invoke this protection...
Kismet (book by Charles Lederer & Luther Davis; music by Alexander Borodin; musical adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest) seems to have mistaken itself at times for a supercolossal film. The production cost $400,000, and thanks to Lemuel Ayres's eye for color and sense of medieval Bagdad, a great deal of Kismet could not be more satisfactorily sumptuous. But Kismet is too weighted down with finery to be at all fast on its feet, and even with Alfred Drake to pace it, most of it is just resplendently tedious...
...selecting only politically favorable information from FBI files for publication. "He's going on the assumption that anything advantageous for the Republicans the public ought to know. All that's been established (by the whole White business) is a little sloppiness in the White House and perhaps a mistaken decision. No evidence has come out to show that any damage was done to the nation...
...France's Claude Debussy, Germany's Richard Wagner was "that old poisoner" of the pure wells of music. In the 1890's, fuming at the "grandiloquent hysteria" of the Wagnerian heroes-and calling his predecessor "a beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn"-Debussy, singlehanded, set about creating a new anti-Wagnerian style. The result was the only opera he ever finished, Pelléas et Mélisande. Based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, it had a shadowy, once-upon-a-time plot that actually bore a genteel resemblance to Wagner's Tristan...