Word: mistakenness
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Guiot's case, as it turned out, was dismissed at the urging of the state prosecutor, who pointed out that the police might have been mistaken. The appeals-court judges, angered by Tomasini's insults, seemed delighted to comply, reversed Guiot's conviction. Tomasini withdrew his charge of cowardice after meeting with President Georges Pompidou. "Perhaps 'misunderstanding' would be a better word," he said lamely. With Tomasini backtracking and the students appeased, calm was restored for the time being, at least...
...jeopardize the further operation of PBH. But that is the effect of their decision and of the prospective cut in the building budget. No single implied or explicit criticism can be better helped through these financial cut-backs. Their stringency is great enough to make it natural, if perhaps mistaken, for people at PBH to feel they are being punished and placed on probation. The Committee on Students and Community Relations has served itself, PBH, and the Harvard community badly. It is they who should support their criticisms and make their case...
...those of us still struggling. If anyone who claims to be a rational being thinks that the epitome of a good life (for a woman) is to sit in a house all day, cook, clean, watch television and raise children. I'm afraid that they're sadly mistaken. If a woman is going to be educated, don't deny her the right to use her mind...
Advances in the scientific specialties require early, intense concentration on getting to know the tools of research. These advances are important but perhaps overrated. Too often the advancement of science is mistaken for the idol to whom obeisance is due instead of the amelioration of the lot of man. In either case, the idol often calls for human sacrifice...
...other errors involve mistaken dates of decades ago. Khrushchev remembers dinners hosted by Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda, which he dates at a time when she had already died. Crankshaw and Translator-Editor Strobe Talbott state in the forthcoming book that Khrushchev confused some facts. They debated whether to correct him, says Talbott, but decided to "allow him to speak in his own words," even when he was "telescoping events"; in some cases, they point out errors in footnotes...