Word: mistakenness
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Look could, of course, have been mistaken. But if he really did spot Kennedy's car, then the accident could not have occurred when Kennedy said it" did, and it is highly improbable that Kennedy and his friends would have had time for the rescue attempts they claimed to have made before Kennedy was seen in Edgartown. This would mean that Kennedy lied or erred about both the time of the accident and the events that followed it, and that those at the party were, at the very least, mistaken in their statements that he returned to the cottage...
...read of Israel's attacks on Egyptian territory (and especially about Israel's mistaken attacks), and the Israelis become "hawks." Analogies spring effortlessly to mind, analogies to situations in which few can remain dispassionate. We read that the Palestinians describe their battle as a "war of national liberation" against an "imperialist" power backed by the U. S. The obvious analogy cannot be avoided, and neutrality is impossible...
Israel's war is far more than attacks, mistaken attacks, and governmental threats and declarations. This must also be true of the Arabs' war. "You have to feel both sides before you realize how impossible the situations is," said a Harvard grad student who visited Israel after living for years in an Arab country. Certainly an understanding of Arab life and of the Palestinian cause would make their war seem justifiable. Similarly, once one senses Israel's way of existence, one cannot help but understand her war more sympathetically...
...diminished when Spiro Agnew followed up on a CBS interview with an accusation that the Senate had allowed itself to be taken in by "the worst snow job of any legislative body in history." More than two dozen Senators signed a letter charging that the President had "completely mistaken" the Senate's action and pledging that they would support a Southerner of Nixon's philosophical persuasion if he met "the high legal, judicial and ethical standards which we believe are required." Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore introduced a resolution accusing Nixon of an "assault on the integrity of the Senate." Agnew...
...world export trade for watches, and dumps another 3,000,000 movements a year that sell for as little as 500 apiece, mostly in Asia and Africa. Often these cheap pin-lever works turn up in bogus Swiss casings with labels that might easily be mistaken for some of the world's best-known brands...