Word: mistakenness
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...statement of the Czech historian, Frantisek Palacky that "The Hussite War is the first war in history that was fought not for material interests but for intellectual ones - for ideals" is mistaken - by 16 centuries. In the second century B.C., the Syrian king, Antiochus IV, sought to hellenize forcibly the Jews of Palestine and to compel them to surrender their way of life. In the year 168 B.C., the Maccabees launched a revolt against their Syrian overlords, the purpose of which was the preservation of and the right to practice one's faith. Had the Maccabees not fought this...
...other respects, Muskie's political career has been somewhat improbable. In accent and countenance, the New Englander might be mistaken for a cousin of Leverett Saltonstall. In fact, he is a Roman Catholic whose father anglicized the family name from Marciszewski. Muskie, second of six children, grew up in the textile-mill town of Rumford, earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Maine's Bates College and a law degree from Cornell in 1939. After Navy service in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II, he returned to Maine to set up law practice in Waterville and began...
...were staying. Other agents were on round-the-clock duty outside the candidates' suites, checking passengers debarking from elevators. The Sheraton-Blackstone across the street, where Senator George McGovern was billeted, got equal protection. Press photographers were warned not to shoot pictures through open windows lest they be mistaken for snipers...
...Damascus Gate, they smashed the windshields of Arab-owned taxis and damaged parked cars. Several Arab passersby were chased and severely beaten -and so was one young Israeli who was mistaken for an Arab. Shops and cafes were damaged, and one howling gang broke into an Arab-owned liquor store and shattered practically every bottle on its well-stocked shelves. At the height of the rioting, an Israeli girl shouted: "This is what the Arabs deserve. Five bombs in one night is too much." Busloads of police finally drove the mob back into the Israeli sector, where they continued...
...have just read the article in your August 6th issue about Racism at the Summer School and have found it wholly one-sided and to a good degree mistaken. "Racism" is a very strong word and one should think twice before using it. Certainly, playing "psychedelic music" rather than "soul music" at mixers is a poor example of Racism. I myself prefer Beethoven, but I am hesitant on that account to think of mixers as "Anti-intellectualism at Harvard Summer School...