Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airlines have been granted seven rate increases since 1958, including a jet surcharge that was approved under the mistaken assumption that the highly productive jets would cost more to operate than piston planes. Even the industry's weakest member got a lift last week, when control of money-losing Northeast Airlines was sold by Howard Hughes's trustee to Miami Beach's Storer Broadcasting Co.; Storer will provide fresh funds, but Northeast's future depends on a pending CAB decision as to whether it can continue to fly the New York-Miami...
...truism loudly trumpeted by West German politicians these days is that the nation's youth can no longer be blamed for the crimes or the mistaken beliefs of its elders. But what does youth believe in? Since 3,078,000 Germans born between 1940 and 1944 will be eligible to vote for the first time next fall in what seems likely to be a close election, both Ludwig Erhard's Christian Democrats and Willy Brandt's Social Democrats would love to know. Last week their strategists were poring over the 200-page digest of a report...
...said the New Jersey Supreme Court in the course of reversing both convictions, was the more important issue of Lynn's right to intervene in defense of Dollie. Striking a blow for good Samaritans, the court held that "one who intervenes in a struggle under a reasonable but mistaken belief that he is protecting another who he assumes is being unlawfully assaulted is thereby exonerated from criminal liability...
Weighing heavily upon everyone's mind was the fact that Poet Robert Lowell had refused an invitation because, he explained, his attendance might be mistaken for personal approval of President Johnson's Viet Nam policies...
...into its eighth week, the stumbling block was still Caamaño, whose 3,000 well-armed rebels have fortified their square mile of downtown Santo Domingo into a miniature Stalingrad. If anything, Caamaño was noisier than before. "Those who believe that time can weaken us are mistaken," he stormed in one movie-house speech. Up went the shouts: "Assassins!" "Traitors!" "Out with the Yanquis!" "If necessary," continued Caamaño, "we will write a page that our people will never forget...