Word: mistakenness
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...could only lose a war fought on mainland Asia. What outraged him was not the misappraisal of American military objectives. But the duplicity of the Johnson administration's selling the war to a gullible nation. His 40-year-old prediction that the tendency to fabricate facts and rely on mistaken public opinion would have dire consequences came true, taking on tragic proportions in Vietnam. This time, however, the professionals and experts he trusted were the ones to casually deceive the public and betray his confidence. Ostracized for his strident criticism of the war, Lippmann actively encouraged radical protest...
...fashionable. Says John Randell, director of a heroin detoxification program in Los Angeles' Century City: "Cocaine dispelled all the phobias about playing with narcotics, so it became acceptable to experiment with heroin." Most of the experimenters snort the drug or heat it and inhale the vapor, in the mistaken belief that they will not run the same risk of addiction as they would if they injected heroin. According to experts, frequent consumption in any form may lead to addiction. Still, says a $30,000-a-year clothes designer in New York: "You can't get hooked...
They are handicapped, of course, by an ignorance of our language which often seems to denote a degree of diffidence and unaggressiveness that is easily mistaken for lack of energy, acuteness and ambition. For this reason also, their life has remained slightly distinct and colonized...
...that right, just as we must condemn a soldier, or one who kills in selfdefense. And in condemning abortion we condemn ourselves. We should all feel guilty, after each abortion, for we are all part of the society that, of necessity, allows it. The state legislature has only been mistaken in trying to force this emotion through the code of the law. But as "the letter killeth," so do the abortionists, and which is worse...
...Soviet press, meanwhile, continued its campaign against "antisocialist elements and Western imperialist propaganda." In particular, Pravda blasted AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and other U.S. labor leaders for sending aid to "antigovernment" Polish strikers and labor unions. The American leaders, warned Pravda, "are profoundly mistaken in thinking that their interference in the internal affairs of the sovereign Polish state will go unnoticed...