Word: mistakenness
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...freshmen, for every night several gates are left wide open. Admittedly, they are the most inconvenient possible and require everyone to walk all over the Yard in search of an exit. But if police think that this could discourage those to whom "Vice is Now Become Alamode," they are mistaken. Their efforts will have no more permanent effect than President Dunsters when, according to Professor Morison, he emptied his horn of gunpowder in the middle of the Yard, laid a train, touched it off with a live coal, and "blew the Devil out of Harvard College...
...mistaken, our newly promoted Prime Minister helped to drive a far better bargain at Geneva than the U.S. specialists did at Panmunjom some time...
This week Peiping radio broadcast a note in which the Chinese Communist government "expressed its regret at this accidental and unfortunate incident," offered to pay compensation and said its pilots had mistaken the British plane for a Chinese Nationalist bomber. A few hours later the State Department announced that there was more to the story than had been told: two U.S. planes, from two carriers assigned to "cover and protect" rescue operations, had shot down two Chinese Communist planes which had attacked them over the high seas while they were searching for survivors...
...John Adams, whom he had once tarred as blackmailers. Stevens, said Joe, is "a very honest individual [who] got mousetrapped in the very rough politics played down here." Of Adams he said tolerantly, at one point: "I wouldn't want to accuse him of perjury . . . John is badly mistaken." Even the McCarthy charge that Stevens and Adams had sought to sidetrack the McCarthy committee investigations of the Army by offering "dirt" on the Air Force and Navy was airily dismissed...
...laments the passing of those "merry," "wanton" days. True, he went on to make a heap of money on Broadway and in Hollywood, but this, he says, was cold comfort because he suffered terribly from "a nostalgia for poverty." He gets some comfort out of the somewhat mistaken belief that until he spoke up in 1939 "no voice of any importance anywhere" had protested against Hitler's butchery of Jews. He is also proud of having backed Palestine's Irgun terrorists so vigorously that he found "British spies among the early irises" of his Nyack garden and became...