Word: mistakenness
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After the war, McConaughy worked as TIME's bureau chief in Ottawa and Seattle, but it was on Washington's Capitol Hill that he found his real home. Often mistaken by tourists for a Senator, McConaughy liked the members of Congress, and they liked him. He averaged about five miles a day walking down congressional corridors into congressional offices, was a welcome guest in congressional homes, an after-hours regular in the private sanctums of Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He played a leading part in covering...
...Prodded by newsmen at a press conference, McElroy comments on Burke's dissent: "I am disappointed in him, regard it as regrettable. I think he's a fine officer. I am sorry he's mistaken in this respect." In testifying on the Administration's reorganization proposals, declares McElroy, military officers should bear in mind the President's publicly and emphatically expressed views...
...that the only one of the three capable of causing paralysis was the virus of polio itself. This may not be so, say Hammon and colleagues. After studying six patients who were immunized against polio with gamma globulin in prevaccine days and then developed a paralytic disease that was mistaken for polio, they now suggest that the guilty viruses were of the Coxsackie group (named for the Hudson Valley town where the first one was isolated) or the ECHO group (named for enteric cytopathogenic human orphan). Concludes the A.M.A.: Viruses probably also have been responsible for some post-vaccination cases...
...sinewy fingers through his crew-cut hair. Badmen usually underestimate McGraw, but all women smile seductively at him. He hits it off fine with most cops, who overlook his occasional infractions in the line of duty. The most human of all TV's hireling snoopers, McGraw has sometimes mistaken a crook's pocketed finger for a gun, has dived prudently for cover when a real equalizer was pulled...
...inspector of police, who began firing absurd questions at him: "You have a wife living in Paris. Is that right?" "So you yourself are a sculptor ... Is that right?" Before long, Sam, a bachelor and no sculptor, realized that he was in a nasty hole-a victim of mistaken identity...