Word: mistakenly
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After the round, Sarazen happened to overhear a conversation between two elderly members lounging in the clubhouse. "If I'm not mistaken" one of them said, "Sarazen had a total of 160 for his two rounds in 1923--a 75 and an 85. This year once gain he had a total of 160--a 79 and an 81. He hasn't improved at all over the years...
...idea that he was a radical was quite mistaken," Freund said. "Actually, he was quite conservative. He was concerned with the quality of justice. He worshipped everything English, most of all the English legal system...
PAHK THE CAAH IN HAHVAHD YAHD--This little ditty mimicking the nuances of the Boston accent is based upon a mistaken notion that few non-Harvard people realize. Any vehicle parked in the Yard for an extended period of time--as a great many Harvard students can attest--will be towed away...
Others objected that a gift for grabbing headlines is often mistaken for leadership. Said Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce Joseph Blatchford, 42: "Historians don't pay tribute to those who are not activist but who are exerting great leadership nonetheless." Westchester County Executive Alfred Del Bello. 42. agreed. "The [quiet] person who knows how to use the complex forces at work today doesn't necessarily get on the TV screen, but certainly is responsible...
...farmers in some rural backwater, or before a throng of urban humanity screaming his name, and hearing their response, not from their mouths but from the computer printouts of a hundred opinion surveys, after the exhilaration of a heartfelt speech, warmly received, and the magnified shame of a few mistaken words, after the victories of the primaries and the defeat on November 2, Gerald Ford is finally left in solitude to remember each day and relive it again, and wonder what went wrong...