Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents, they are pictured only from the neck or waist down. But when her creators have her plowing up her vegetable garden because Daddy tells her there is a surplus, or throwing down a newspaper because "Walter Lippmann doesn't understand me," there is no chance of mistaken identity...
During his recent trip to Europe, President Kennedy observed in a speech delivered in West Berlin that the United States had never found it necessary to erect walls to keep its citizens in. He was, unfortunately, mistaken. Our walls are not built of bricks and cement, and they are not topped with broken glass, but they are walls just the same...
...bottles are ready. But through misguided generosity, mothers sometimes mix a thick formula that is far too concentrated. Instead of more nourishment, the infant gets an indigestible lump of protein in his stomach and may suffer nausea and diarrhea. The lumps have long baffled doctors; they have even been mistaken for kidney tumors, and hasty operations have been performed on the overfed patients. Doctors have now learned to identify the lumps by X ray, and a pair of Louisville physicians, describing the phenomenon of lactobezoar (hardened milk) in the A.M.A. Journal, report a nonsurgical method for dealing with the condition...
...computer. When three bright stars have been reported, the computer measures the angles between them and compares them with known angles stored in its memory. No two groups of three stars have exactly the same angular arrangement, but if the computer picks up one group that might possibly be mistaken for another, it observes a fourth star and uses it to remove all uncertainty. When the computer has decided firmly what stars the mirror was looking at, it tells the spacecraft how it is heading...
...diabetic who has a "shock" reaction to his insulin is likely to be mistaken for a drunk; he may die in the lockup before anybody realizes what is wrong. A person who is allergic to penicillin or tetanus antitoxin may die within minutes after an injection which is routinely given to accident victims. Heart patients on a precise digitalis dosage and arthritics on steroid hormones are in serious danger if their medication is suddenly stopped. Atropine, or similar drugs, given to glaucoma patients may contribute to blindness...