Word: mistakenness
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First of all, when I first saw the way your questions were formulated, I felt--maybe I'm mistaken, and if I am, correct me--that the questions themselves reflected concern about the state of SovietAmerican relations. Unfortunately, that is something that we don't hear all that often in our contact and conversations with representatives of U.S. political or other circles. I felt that that in itself was very important if the questions themselves reflected concern. There is another reason of no less importance. And that is connected with our assessment of the situation in the world. That situation...
Comfortable as this slang may be, confusion sometimes results, especially since the borrowed English is generally pronounced as if it were Spanish. Spanglish-speaking chicanos, for instance, have taken to using embarrassar to mean "embarrass," which is what happens when that word is mistaken for embarazar, a Spanish word that sounds the same but means "to become pregnant." Moreover, many U.S. Hispanics have grown up hearing so much Spanglish that they are not sure which words are really English. Says Pedro Pedraza of the Puerto Rican studies department at Manhattan's Hunter College: "I've heard of Puerto Rican kids...
...Soviet official. Last week Agca described the bombing of the radio stations as having taken place in late 1980; the stations were actually attacked in February 1981. The dramatic identification of Antonov lost much of its effect when Agca admitted 20 minutes later, "It is possible I am mistaken." He also seemed to mock his own charges against the Masonic lodge when he insisted that the organization "knew with certainty that I am Jesus Christ." Judge Santiapichi interrupted, "Let us leave aside your divine powers...
Were it not for a few telltale antennas and a curious whitewashed rooftop coop, the handsome brick edifice in San Francisco's tony Pacific Heights could be easily mistaken for a small, posh hotel. In fact, the owner is the Soviet Union and the occupants are at least 41 Soviet officials. That is an unusually large number of diplomats for a consulate in a medium-size American city, but the Soviets did not come to the Bay Area to stamp tourist visas. About half the consular officials, the FBI estimates, are actually spies...
...were able to establish ourselves in our trades, professions and callings with reasonable success. Some of us, but not many, were recalled for service during the Korean War--we were getting a bit too long in the tooth for combat at the time, of the deeply tragic and mistaken enterprise, the war in Vietnam...