Word: mistakenness
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...civilized world, capital punishment must be abolished because: 1) there is no proof that it is a deterrent to crime, 2) there is increasing proof that insanity, if only the temporary variety, is always present in a major crime, 3) there is always the ghastly possibility of mistaken conviction, and 4) individuals and societies who kill their fellow men, "legally" or otherwise, suffer a very real if subconscious sense of guilt...
...Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill., a pretty, blue-eyed young woman, who might be mistaken for a home economics teacher, instead makes an unusual approach to the teaching of high school English. Karin De Long spiritedly guides her students through challenging books, then has them find and lift out techniques to use in their own writing. Any kind of writing-mostly good, but sometimes bad-is fair game for Teacher De Long. One week she may give her class Chaucer, another week Thomas Hardy, another a collection of Japanese Haiku (17-syllable poems). "I want to see both...
Commonest symptom in susceptible children. Dr. Cohlan reported, is a seizure like that of tetanus, in which the spine is arched stiffly back. Next in frequency come uncontrollable eye rolling, rigidity of the muscles (especially those used in chewing), and drooling. Understandably, physicians have mistaken these disorders for signs of epilepsy, tetanus, bulbar polio and encephalitis. In one case they increased the dose of the drug, in a fumbling effort to treat the seizures that a smaller dose had caused...
...week. In another case when $42 in cash disappeared from a service station, the three attendants voluntarily asked Devine for a lie-detector test. Devine said they were honest, sent them back to the job. A few days later a customer returned the money, saying he had mistaken the manager's bank...
Danger No. 1 is what Herter called "war by miscalculation" - the possibility, for example, that one side might try to launch a surprise attack in a mistaken belief that the other side was preparing one. To guard against the miscalculation danger, the U.S. is working toward "safe guards against surprise attack," including "aerial and mobile ground inspection." During a time of crisis, inspection teams might prevent a nuclear war by "helping to verify that neither side was preparing a surprise attack upon the other." Danger No. 2 arises from the prospect that as time goes by more and more nations...