Word: mistakenness
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Harvard collected the mistaken Plympton St rents--which too effect in January 1981 for about 14 months before tenant Anne Brinton complained to the rent board...
...industry negotiations demonstrate that labor unions are hardly willing to forsake their historic demands. Another example of this is the refusal by employees at American Airlines to accept a wage freeze. Observes former Labor Secretary W.J. Usery Jr.: "Those who think the labor movement is fading away are very mistaken...
...plastic bucket passed from hand to hand. Three women group under a tent made of shirts to keep the sun off. They pay no attention to the gawkers in fresh-painted yachts who swing close by for a look. A woman nurses a baby so small it can be mistaken for her own forearm...
...including deposed Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek. State television was filled with patriotic World War II films and other uplifting programming, such as an interview with a bemedaled old general who said he had known Jaruzelski since the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War II. (The man was mistaken; Jaruzelski fought in the Soviet army as it marched through Poland and on to Berlin. See box.) He sang the leader's praises and assured viewers that Jaruzelski was an honest soldier who did not have it in his nature to be a dictator...
...ears to go faster neglects the fact of a lot of rough little rogues cursing and beating the horses' rumps with sticks. During Spectacular Bid's stirring three-year-old season (1979), just when Bid's teen-age jockey Ron Franklin was about to be mistaken for Mickey, Franklin hopped down off a gelding named Big Vision one day and kicked him right in the stomach. So much for sentimentality...