Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle of the Ring. Undismayed, Harry Truman tried one more chord: "The Democratic Party has a duty to the country, and if I am not badly mistaken, the Democratic Party is going to keep right on carrying out that duty." He paused for the ovation that didn't come. "Next year!" he shouted. Still silence. "1952!" Finally they got the idea, and the applause rolled...
Last week Rome's official Jesuit fortnightly, Civiltà Cattolica, printed a significant article to explain how mistaken this idea was. "There are many sincere believers, Catholics full of idealism, who look with disquietude and almost a secret anguish on the diplomatic activity of the vicar of Jesus Christ. They would prefer . . . that the Church should never appear to be conniving with this or that policy or with any particular regime." Such notions, the article went on, grew out of ignorance of what Vatican diplomacy really is, or how much the spiritual good of Catholics can be benefited...
...times popes have seen fit to close it. In 1829 a contemporary chronicler wrote: "If in the city or in some fashionable salon you meet a young man wearing perfumed ecclesiastical garb and whose hair is much pomaded and who shows other outward signs of levity, you cannot be mistaken if you come to the conclusion that he either belongs to the Ecclesiastical Academy, or pretends...
There were other irregularities as well. Once small arms fire suddenly broke out all over the grounds. After investigating, Bundy found that the guards, men relived from front line duty because of battle fatigue, had mistaken the chateau's decorative statues for Nazis and were shooting them full of holes...
ACHESON : "The State Department was not advised by the Joint Chiefs of Staff or by anyone that Formosa was of no strategic importance ... I think this paragraph [in the propaganda directive] talks about mistaken conceptions of its strategic importance to the U.S. in defense of the Pacific. There had been a great deal of talk . . . that the loss of Formosa would be catastrophic ... indeed, there have been statements to the effect that if it were lost, the defense of the U.S. would be thrown back to our western coast. That, I think, is not a view which has been held...