Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hostility of their hosts. At the turn of the century, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was worried that East European immigrants labored under a "Byzantine" inheritance that would make them inimical to republican rule. Sixty years earlier, Protestant mobs burned Irish Catholic churches. The Senator and the rioters were both mistaken in their fears. Even blacks, the oldest and most abused American minority group, bear the marks of Americanization. Martin Luther King Jr. may have written about the influence on him of the teachings of Gandhi, but when he spoke, the texts he cited were the King James Bible, the Declaration...
...part, spent his time in bed with other women or at Belair, his beloved racing stable. Finally, on a chilly October night in 1955, after years of not-so-private misery, Ann picked up a custom-made shotgun and blew Billy's tiny brains out. She had mistaken him for a prowler who was, in fact, walking about on the roof at that moment. "There's only one worse thing Ann could have done," joked an acquaintance the day after the shooting. "She could have shot the horse." The horse happened to be Nashua, Belair's greatest winner...
...report in the New England Journal of Medicine says the culprit may be cow's milk, and the process a bizarre case of mistaken identity. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto found that the diabetics had a much higher than normal level of antibodies to a protein in cow's milk called bovine serum albumin; their bodies have targeted the protein as an invader to be destroyed. By a terrible coincidence, a section of this milk protein is almost identical to a protein on the surface of insulin-producing cells. When these people are sensitized to milk...
...regulations: no phone calls or leaving their rooms without permission, no unauthorized food. Small wonder that each gymnast performed her routine, looked anxiously to her personal coach for feedback, then turned inward to focus on the next event. In Olympics of old, the stony- faced Americans might have been mistaken for Soviets...
...chosen for the 4 X 100 m-U.S. relay team. But he's only guaranteed a chance to compete in the long jump, and is not assured a medal there. Still he has stuck to his usual training regimen, and the preternatural Lewis aplomb, which so many have mistaken for ice water, may serve him one final time. "Experience does mean a lot," he says...