Word: mistakenness
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...course, perhaps, and considers himself quite the expert. As a result, his article devotes 10 paragraphs to the text and playwright, and a meagre one or two to the production itself. Rarely does he deny himself a few cutting epithets in this space --although they are usually mistaken and just as often meaningless...
...source of all this bustle is Walter Peter Marshall. 63, the company's $141,000-a-year president. A Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-schooled accountant who is one-eighth Cherokee, Marshall got into communications accidentally by answering a help-wanted ad by All America Cables in the mistaken belief that it manufactured cables rather than sent them. After working up to executive vice president of Postal Telegraph, he came to Western Union in the 1943 merger that gave W.U. a monopoly on domestic telegraph business. When he became president in 1948, Western Union looked ready for the undertaker. With...
...Foreign Secretary. One of the original staunch supporters of the late Labor Party chief Hugh Gaitskell, he has since loyally followed Wilson. The son of a judge, Gordon Walker was a history tutor at Christ Church, Oxford, for nine years, and, in the opinion of one observer, "could be mistaken for a Tory." The only member of Wilson's Cabinet to have held senior rank in the last Labor government, Gordon Walker is regarded as a bridge-figure between the academic and union sides of the Labor Party. He was the first Secretary of State to visit all Commonwealth...
Southeast Asia's Communist guerrilla armies, in the mistaken belief that Peking can now stand up to Washington with an atomic punch...
Describing Alabama voters as deluded by "false hopes and promises they will all return to cotton plantations amid sweet magnolias and honeysuckle blooms," Flowers attributed Alabama's Republican support to a mistaken belief that Goldwater would not enforce integration legislation but would "maintain and improve Democratic social reform programs...