Word: mistakenness
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Probably it was the Crimson's ineffectual clearing in its own sone that gave the Eagles this mistaken impression. Goalie Bob Bland, playing with ten fresh stitches in his forehead, covered up this weakness, however, and turned in a total of 26 saves, many of them made with his trusty left hand...
...woman being strangled in a passing train. Murder, she says to the police, but they only smile indulgently. Miss Marple gets her back up. "If you think I am going to sit back." she bellows, "and let everybody regard me as a dotty old maid, you are very much mistaken...
OKLAHOMA'S Democratic Representative Carl Bert Albert, 53, is 5 ft. 4 in. tall, wears an elfin grin, and is so inconspicuous that he might be mistaken for a filing clerk in his own office. But Albert has qualities that should serve him well as majority floor leader: he combines an abiding love of the House with a shrewd sense of its mood that has earned him respect on both sides of the aisle and at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue...
Khrushchev himself continued his campaign against the "personality cult" when at a Kiev meeting his agricultural policies were openly criticized by an agronomist and he replied breezily that orders must not be obeyed unthinkingly: "I can be mistaken." But there were signs that the anti-Stalinist drive was having dangerous side effects. Central Committee Secretary Leonid Ilyichev took pains to warn a convention of 2,700 party propagandists that anti-Stalinism must not lead to questioning the Marxist-Leninist system itself or to opposing the right kind of leadership...
...producing world-wide disaster. Western statesmen, however, confident of the supposed technical superiority of the West, believed that there was no danger of Russia achieving equality with the non-Communist world in the field of nuclear warfare. Their confidence in this respect has turned out to have been mistaken. It follows that, if nuclear war is now to be prevented, it must be by new methods and not by those which could have have been employed ten years...