Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since ostentatious display is frowned upon, scrupulous underconsumption, mixed with an unreal vagueness about income sources and feigned ignorance of the costs of goods, is easily mistaken for "real wealth." Lest you scoff, note the commoners around you who drop names with a straight face, the bar fly who mutters, "I never should have dropped Bauxite," and the man who, professing to enjoy driving his Volkswagen, laughs lightly at a streaking Lear Jet, shaking his head quizzically and mumbling "Nouveau riche." Which is to say, it works, and has been working for quite some time. Convincing people is only...
...motorbike when a shot rang out. His 15-year-old son Kirk, following on another motorbike, tumbled to the ground dead. Then his ten-year-old son was killed. Down the road, Delaney found a middle-aged hunter with a .30-'06 rifle, who explained that he had mistaken the boys, who were wearing red hats and riding a red bike...
Neal went on to mourn that Capitol Hill's image of Harvard was for the most part mistaken, that Harvard men hadn't yet fulfilled the radical potential they undoubtedly...
...vowed time after time that unless something is done to help the poor, they will bring down "plague after plague" upon "the Pharaohs of this nation." Last week, as his Poor People's Campaign continued to flood into Washington, it began to look as if somebody, somewhere, had mistaken the poor for the Pharaohs and their "Resurrection City" for old Egypt land...
...conversation. She argued with the middle-aged male adult in front of me about the virtues of marijuana and sighed knowingly when he said he was a buyer for a large hardware store chain for a living. She had seen The Graduate, and liked it yes, but had not mistaken Dustin Hoffman's naturally pinched voice with a well-developed acting technique. All in all, she was a well-liberaled and enlightened girl, that is until I asked her what she thought about the thing at Columbia. "What do you think about the thing at Columbia?" I asked...