Word: mistakenness
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...husband's defense of Solzhenitsyn, she feels that Slava's friends sometimes take advantage of him. "He is a man who must be handled with love, yes, but also with brain," she says emphatically. "In music his intuition is never false, but in human relationships he is very often mistaken because he wants to love everybody and not everybody loves...
Members of the minority task force had expressed concern that the new admissions administrator not be mere window dressing. They rejected suggestions by some faculty members that the new administrator work primarily as a counselor for minorities as "based on a mistaken belief that minority students' lives are problem oriented...
...because of the furor about Soap," he complains. "I ended up eating, drinking and smoking too much." His eyes are strangely hooded, like Bert Lance's, as if he has just awakened?or is about to go to sleep. He is graying early, and he could easily be mistaken for someone ten years older than he is. In person, Silverman is affable but tentative. He does not shake hands but thrusts forth his fingers instead, as if afraid that the full package might not be returned. At CBS he was known as a hypochondriac who would run off about once...
Cauthen drove Walls home as promised, firmly convinced that the tellers had been mistaken. A short time later, however, a convicted felon also in the lineup told the FBI that he had overheard Brantley and Walls whispering about the robbery. Additional evidence was marshaled, and both Walls and Brantley were put on trial. The jury could not agree about Brantley's guilt, and the Government dropped the charges, but Walls was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison...
...seems intent on killing women. Most of his attacks have been on long haired brunettes, many of them sitting in parked cars at night with their boy friends. Two of the male victims were wearing shoulder-length brown hair, and police think that the killer may have mistaken them for females...