Word: mistakenness
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...Southern support at Miami Beach, Agnew was assigned the task of appealing to the potential Wallace vote. He began the drive with the standard spiel on law and order, but as the weeks passed, he grew progressively more abrasive. At times, except for the accent, he might have been mistaken for Wallace himself, making use of such Wallace-like expressions as "phony intellectual." In the end, though Agnew may have hurt Nixon overall, he appears to have helped him win critically important Border states...
...been a missionary in India since 1935, expects that he will be asked to resign his see as a result of the book, which he wrote out of intellectual conviction. "Having come to the conclusion that I could prove that the Church's belief in infallibility is mistaken," he explains, "I felt I had no choice but to publish my case." The book will unquestionably be studied with care in the Vatican, since Bishop Simons says flatly that "a scrutiny of the traditional arguments seems to prove that the very structure of infallibility has to be abandoned...
With that, Jim understood his unexpected popularity. People were mistaking him for Producer George Schlatter. And with good reason. Both men are built along the lines of a barrel; both have dark brown hair and mustaches and beards. So the case of mistaken identity persisted. There are more than 200 people involved in each Laugh-In, and every now and then, some of them would come to Jim to discuss their problems-personal and production. With that kind of help, Jim managed to deliver more than 140 pages of copy...
...whether undergraduates would be teaching. The confusion arose because of Cottle's mistaken assumption that undergraduates could lead sections so long as they were not officially responsible for grading...
...Alexander is on the one hand quite right: for anyone is mistaken who came here expecting to be entertained at lectures delivered by professors passionately devoted to capturing forever the adolescent mind; they are indeed too busy with their own concerns for that. The sad truth is, however, that not only at Harvard, but in every school, the only intellectual stimulation of lasting value is from within a student himself; no classroom, however glittering, can goad him to an end he is loath to achieve. The professors Mr. Alexander describes have failed indeed: but they have failed in the impossible...