Word: mistakenness
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...caper proved a prelude to another, even grimmer case of mistaken identity that provoked considerable public outrage...
...With Lilly once again in attendance, he finally grew so sick that all visitors were barred-whereupon he began improving. The doctors ran a battery of tests and discovered signs of arsenic, which, when administered in small doses over a period of time, produces symptoms that can easily be mistaken for those of other ailments. Some of the organs from Lilly's late husband were reexamined, and they also showed large amounts of the poison...
Dismay. If McGovern thought that those firm words would be the end of it, he was badly mistaken. Almost at once, the Furies descended. The telephones and news tickers at McGovern's temporary headquarters in Custer, S. Dak., quickly relayed the anger and dismay of key Democrats round the U.S. McGovern's finance chiefs, already facing a red-ink campaign, winced in despair. Editorialists let go their thunderbolts, crying for Eagleton to quit the ticket. McGovern calmly stayed put in South Dakota. Eagleton, at first shaken, gained strength through a hectic week of campaigning in California and Hawaii...
...Maudling may yet return to the Cabinet once the Poulson investigation is completed. But the whole affair has probably put an end to whatever chance he still had of becoming Prime Minister. That is a pity, for, as the London Times noted, "as a businessman Mr. Maudling was often mistaken, but as a politician he had the useful habit of often being proved right...
...play itself approaches the naivete within us all and the oftentimes too narrow confines of our existence with the madcap and improbable style that good farce demands. All the elements of farce are present and accounted for--mistaken identities, chance meetings, characters hiding beneath tables and inside closets, young innocents seeking thrills and happiness, a pig-headed miser trying to foil them, and minor characters of vast experience and questionable virtue. What the play point-blank suggests to the audience, in the moral pronounced before the final curtain, is that we should all free ourselves for some adventure in life...