Word: mistakenness
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Johnnie Walker, Red. The faint suggestion of a smile worked at the corners of Molotov's mouth as he left the third day's proceedings: Was he mistaken, or had Britain and France seemed not quite so anxious as the U.S. to shut him up and move on? At the delegates' bar, where Eden and Bidault sipped cocktails and Dulles munched a sandwich, Molotov confidently downed two shots of Johnnie Walker (Red Label...
...city of 637,392, even down to the theft of a few chickens; and 2) covering national and world news with meticulous thoroughness. To European visitors, and even Americans from cities much bigger than Milwaukee, the Journal is often a sharp surprise, for it confounds both the mistaken idea that the American Midwest is a wellspring of unrelieved isolationism or that "provincial" journalism must indeed be provincial...
...columnists.") One thing Correspondent McConaughy can predict, however, is his usual preferential treatment at the beginning of. a Congress, when many of the elevator operators and Capitol policemen are new on their jobs. McConaughy. 38, and a big six-footer with a shock of grey hair, is often mistaken for a Congressman himself. For a few days he enjoys the luxury of a cop stopping traffic and waving him through a red light, or an elevator operator whisking him directly to the floor he wants. Then he becomes an ordinary correspondent again, pounding his marble-floored beat and listening...
...forefathers wrote into the constitution the privilege of the Fifth Amendment to provide for protection which good citizens may sometimes sorely need. Innocent people who feel the threat of false, mistaken, or overzealous prosecution because of unpopular opinions have every right to invoke this protection...
Kismet (book by Charles Lederer & Luther Davis; music by Alexander Borodin; musical adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest) seems to have mistaken itself at times for a supercolossal film. The production cost $400,000, and thanks to Lemuel Ayres's eye for color and sense of medieval Bagdad, a great deal of Kismet could not be more satisfactorily sumptuous. But Kismet is too weighted down with finery to be at all fast on its feet, and even with Alfred Drake to pace it, most of it is just resplendently tedious...