Word: mistakenness
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...Gordon McLendon, 45, owner of stations in several U.S. cities, and Donald Burden, 38, president of Star Stations of Omaha, charged that the heavy publicity accorded the trial in many European and Asian newspapers would contribute immeasurably to world misunderstanding of the war and give Ho Chi Minh a mistaken idea of world support. The tribunal, said McLendon, was "a kangaroo court conducted by Communists for Communists." A measure of the witnesses' integrity was that three of them accused the U.S. of purposely bombing a leper colony 37 times...
With this mistaken-identity murder, the novel ceases to be girl talk, and it is over before anyone really notices it. If there is a moral in this, and there probably is not, it is that old aphorism to the effect that women may be pretty choosy about whom they sleep with but will marry practically anyone...
Positive: Mistaken at the top of one's voice...
...think that a heavily-promoted elimination tournament to choose the new champion will make loads of money for them are mistaken. Clay has clobbered four of the eight and the others are lunchmeat. The public wants a winner, not "some dodo or junior champion," as Clay puts...
...chapter and verse that is hard to refute. Tito closed down Praxis for so-called "ideological deviations," but later relented. Last week, in a triumphant return to the newsstands (the entire 5,000-copy edition was sold out), the editors boldly announced: "We are not convinced that we were mistaken on any essential point...