Word: mistakenness
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...sometimes threatened to walk out to virtually certain death, but mostly he tried to live normally: he liked Shakespeare, played the electric guitar and became a sci-fi buff; at a Star Trek convention, which he attended clad in an astronaut-type pressure suit, he was delighted to be mistaken for just another imaginatively attired Trekkie...
...MiGs repeatedly swept low over the settlement, terrifying the residents. A Cuban helicopter carrying soldiers touched down briefly near the town. All the Cuban aircraft then flew off, having made the intended point: Bahama had better release the fishermen. The Castro government later claimed that the Flamingo had been mistaken for "a pirate ship." Bahama's Prime Minister Lynden Pindling scoffed at that excuse, noting that the Flamingo had been flying two Bahamian flags and was easily identifiable as a naval vessel. Said Pindling: "Our boats don't fly the Jolly Roger...
...view of development consulting work expressed in the President's open letter would be mistaken in much of the world for a transparent pretext or a tasteless joke; some of the loudest laughs would come from Mr. Harberger's Latin American collaborators. Yet there are still many people in the United States (though perhaps not as many as in the 1950's) who, like Mr. Bok himself, honestly believe in this view. Among them--if one is to judge by HIID's descriptive literature--are the Institute's own staff...
...criticism. The student who receives a 'C' on his exam--with no other comments on the page--will leave the course with the same ideas that earned him a mediocre grade. The test is not, as advertised, a 'learning experience'; it will only have succeeded in reinforcing those mistaken views more firmly...
...know whether Moscow is pursuing this goal in the hope of gaining whatever is lost by the U.S. If it does, it is tragically mistaken. No matter what the cost, we will never enter into such games...