Word: mistakenness
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...conflict and our part in it as a tragedy without villains, war crimes without criminals, lies without liars, espouses and promulgates a view of process, roles and motives that is not only grossly mistaken but which underwrites deceits that have served a succession of Presidents...
...secret Pentagon study declares that "at midnight on July 30, South Vietnamese naval commandos under General Westmoreland's command staged an amphibious raid on the North Vietnamese islands of Hon Me and Hon Ngu in the Gulf of Tonkin. Apparently [the North Vietnamese boats that attacked the Maddox] had mistaken Maddox for a South Vietnamese escort vessel." The rapidity of U.S. air reprisals?within twelve hours of Washington's receipt of the news?argued that the U.S. had been positioned to strike as soon as attacked...
...might tackle this question in his second term. He has shown a very strong interest in the -organization of the presidency and the flow of work and responsibility within the Executive Branch. Some of his critics treat this as a trivial preoccupation with mechanics, but that is a quite mistaken view. Management instruments, in government as well as corporate life, can have highly creative consequences...
...university community. The idea of such a service is offensive to me beyond words. As a former teacher, and now as an ed?ter, the very existence of such a service to me seems disgusting and immoral. Ward Warren the President of Termpapers Unlimited, may be operating under the mistaken motion that he is not doing anything wrong, but in fact, he is encouraging students to give into their walk weak impulses...
...evening-jacketed bourgeois folk turn on for the first time. But there is so little control over the film that even these go wrong: Henry often becomes a cipher; the SPFC scene is both cruel and whimsical in a mix that doesn't mesh; and I even may be mistaken about the purpose of the songs the girls were singing: I am told that one of them, Tom Eyen's "Ode to a Screw," passes for chic these days...