Word: mistakenness
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...United States policy toward Latin America, the Governor maintained that the United States should not intervene in the internal affairs of any Latin country. The U.S. should have "friendly official relations" with all, but should be "friendlier towards some than others" lest those people under dictatorships get the mistaken impression that the United States condones the rules of dictators...
...G.O.P. needed, Herter visited him in Europe in 1951 and urged him to run. He had the courage to give Ike some blunt advice: "If you think there's going to be an Eisenhower draft at the convention, coming from the grass roots, you're very much mistaken . . . You've got to let your friends know where you stand...
...than Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, whose dance troupe scored a notable triumph in the U.S. last year (TIME, May 12). At home last December he stepped to the podium in Moscow's House of Actors and delivered an amazing travelogue. Said he: Even the most informed Russians are badly mistaken about U.S. culture...
...disaster. After that, Canyon's shooting the B-47 down with rocket fire-because a tail wind might possibly push it all the way to Russia-seemed reasonable. For the peacetime Air Force is a weapon in the cold war, and an unarmed plane might easily be mistaken for a belligerent...
...When Ganesh writes a book called What God Told Me ("On Thursday, May 12, at nine o'clock in the morning, just after I had had breakfast, I saw God . . ."), half the island of Trinidad burns with celestial visions. His Profitable Evacuation (approved by island authorities in the mistaken belief that it is a book on civil defense) becomes a bestseller. Ganesh tops his career by representing his country at the United Nations, where he will presumably wind up lecturing the West on its lack of spiritual qualities...