Word: mistakenness
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...uninhabitable by nuclear, chemical or even biological weapons. On their console television screens, they can flash up-to-the-minute weather reports from any area of North America, the status of defensive fighters and missiles, the positions of orbiting satellites and space debris (so that they will not be mistaken for missiles), even the number of rounds of ammunition available to jet fighters at a remote Alaskan airbase...
...King's commission as a mandate for an anti-Semitic holocaust. Thomas' hatred is not for Jews (who, he thinks, are damned anyway) but for the marrano, the converted Jew who might secretly practice Jewish rites. Fatally, Don Alvero is such a one, or could be mistaken for one by malice and fanaticism. And so, Torquemada puts his friend to the torture. Alvero's own wife repudiates him as a Jew, and while he is recovering from torture, his daughter is immolated in a fire that burns the ancient synagogue of Segovia. Thomas gives Alvero his freedom...
...pause with a peace offensive first blossomed. Gathered at the L.B.J. ranch for a working holiday with the President were Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy and Bill Moyers. The four enthusiastically recommended it to Johnson, but the President feared that so dramatic and massive a campaign might be mistaken for a public relations ploy or, worse, an indication of U.S. lack of resolve in the war. But Johnson was willing to consider it further. "All right," he said, "I want you to start looking at this from every angle, from all sides." But, he warned, it must be done...
...would agree with Donald Kalish, chairman of the philosophy department at U.C.L.A., who says: "There is no system of philosophy to spin out. There are no ethical truths, there are just clarifications of particular ethical problems. Take advantage of these clarifications and work out your own existence. You are mistaken to think that anyone ever had the answers. There are no answers. Be brave and face...
...courage to be his own spokesman. Johnson, devious and cowardly, forced his subordinates to speak for him. I prefer Kennedy's method; the public knew exactly where he stood. If Johnson thinks he has been able to fool the public by staying behind the scenes, he is greatly mistaken; he has only earned himself disrespect...