Word: mistakenness
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...gratification from the moment of birth. In normal human beings, its imperatives can be throttled by the rules of morality, but they can never really be denied. In the current issue of Transaction magazine, Sociologists William Simon, 38, and John Henry Gagnon, 37, argue heretically that Freud was mistaken: the sex drive is not strong but weak, and can be easily resisted. Moreover, sex forms no integral part of man's inherited endowment; sexual behavior is something he must learn...
After his conviction, Miller sought the services of Duke, who quickly became persuaded that his client was a victim of mistaken identity. For one thing, Duke claimed to have a bugged conversation in which another man, Mario Natalizio, had admitted that he was Caron's Connecticut contact. He eventually talked Natalizio into a confession. But Natalizio later repudiated the document, and Duke lost both the appeal and numerous motions for a new trial...
Until now, enzymes have been little used in the U.S. except by commercial dry cleaners. Soapmakers feared that American housewives would not have the patience to soak clothes for at least half an hour-and sometimes much longer-before washing them. Apparently the manufacturers were mistaken. The U.S. presoak battle began when P. &G. tested Biz in Syracuse in 1967 and found a surprisingly strong market. Biz and Colgate-Palmolive's Axion then competed in Omaha, the soap industry's other key test market. (Omaha, explains a Colgate official, "tells us what the rest of the world will...
...Walls allows one indistinguishable chapter to fade into another. The story becomes a deja vue recounting of yet another round of position papers, unsure negotiations, and Rudd's explitives. The magnified detail often amuses--the story relates solemnly in a footnote how one of the authors was mistaken for an SDS negotiator and was handed a piece of rope. He hid it, he records for history, under a pile of monographs where it was soon forgotten...
...there was fear of a "missile gap." In 1965, the U.S. concluded that the Russians had given up quantitative arms competition, only to see them spurt forward later. And before leaving office, McNamara acknowledged that, overall, the U.S. had spent too much on weaponry during his tenure because of mistaken estimates of Russian intentions. However, the Russians have accelerated their buildup, tripling their supply of land-based missiles in little more than two years. The U.S. remains ahead in overall nuclear-delivery capability, but Russia continues to close...