Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have faith in humans. I believe that we fundamentally know what is best for ourselves. And even in the times when we are mistaken, I am not convinced that the College administration has the correct answer. At such a cold institution as Harvard, we should strive to define our lives as much and as uniquely...
...theater company was not amused. After the performance, the actors lectured my class on the appropriate decorum of a theater audience. Clearly they had mistaken Pygmalion for some other, much more serious, play, No Exit perhaps...
...fevered fantasies of gun owners seem overdrawn, so, apparently, are those of the control advocates. In 1986, when Florida initiated the current wave of liberalization, critics predicted deadly traffic squabbles and cross fire at the mall. That proved mistaken. Since 1987 more than 266,700 Floridians have been granted concealed-weapons permits; of those, only 19 have had them revoked for firearms-related crime. Since the CCW laws were relaxed, Florida's homicide rate has decreased...
...transmitted by sneezing, kissing or sharing food or drinks. Symptoms include fever, severe headache, neck stiffness, or a rash that can easily be mistaken for less serious illness. Outbreaks often occur among people in close living quarters like army barracks or college dormitories...
...says decorum is gone from Capitol Hill? After a week of Senate deliberations that might have been mistaken for a schoolyard rumble as they prepared to vote on their balanced-budget amendment, the members arranged themselves into something like a class picture. All were seated decorously at their antique mahogany desks. As the clerk called their names, each rose separately to announce his or her vote. Republican Hank Brown of Colorado even put his hand over his heart as he said, "Aye." You could almost forget that most of them still had slingshots in their back pockets...