Word: mistakenness
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...they left the main base vulnerable. Schlafly, however, was a good deal more cunning than anyone first thought. She has potentially a strong feminist background: a daughter of the Depression, she worked in a munitions plant to put herself through Washington University in St. Louis. Feminists might initially have mistaken her for a kind of grandstanding Betty Crocker, but Schlafly and her supporters marshaled all the fear and uncertainty that trails every social revolution, trimmed it and turned it against the opposition. ERA would encourage everything from rampant homosexuality to unisex bathrooms, from women draftees in combat to women victims...
...Wednesday evening press conference: how to "walk the very narrow line" between keeping the pressure on the P.L.O. to negotiate a withdrawal, and on Israel to refrain from making a devastating attack on West Beirut. To neglect the former would be to give the P.L.O. the mistaken notion that world opinion might yet save it. To neglect the latter would be to invite an Israeli bloodbath in the capital...
...that had special force in West Germany, the President assured his listeners that the U.S. military buildup was a sign of American determination to live up to its commitments to defend its allies. To his memorable "You are not alone" line, the President added, "Our adversaries would be foolishly mistaken should they gamble that Americans would abandon their alliance responsibilities, no matter how severe the test...
...constraint, de jure, on his freedom of speech. The GSA has only one legitimate recourse against Mr. Pattullo's views on homosexuality--to debate them, but not to prevent them. I do not myself share Mr. Pattullo's views on homosexuality, but I am certain the GSA is mistaken in its response to them, a response that dangerously politicizes the academic and intellectual process...
...paroled. The "devil's advocate" does not always win; in fact, he often loses. As he explains in his book, The Best Defense, to be published this month by Random House, "The Perry Mason image of the heroic defender of innocent victims of frame-ups or mistaken identification is television fiction...