Word: mistakenness
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...role is the U.S.S.R. going to play? What about Bulgaria? Rumania? Turkey? How shall Russian interests be preserved in the Balkans?" ¶ The dialectical pounce. At the Potsdam Conference, a concrete issue of fact arose between Molotov and Britain's Anthony Eden. Politely, Eden began: "I may be mistaken, but . . ." Before he could finish the sentence, Molotov broke in: "You are mistaken," and that was that...
Jorgensen acknowledged in his articles that his organs had been normal in the first place. But many readers jumped to the conclusion that his was one of the not uncommon cases of pseudohermaphroditism (organs of one sex so malformed or concealed as to be mistaken for those of the other), or one of the rare cases of true hermaphroditism (possessing the gonads of both sexes). In either instance, the operations would have left Jorgensen a girl, or a reasonable facsimile thereof...
Fuller said that good case method instruction is on a nation-wide decline. Although the University emphasizes the reading of many appellate cases, "the school has tried to counteract the mistaken impression that all facts are as neat and coherent as in these prepared cases." The teaching fellowship program enables the student to deal with the "raw" facts as they come into the law office...
...break the opium habit, Thompson distracted himself by writing poems, essays and book reviews. He soon became well enough to return to London, where, in 1893, Meynell arranged publication of his first volume, Poems. But those who imagined that he would now become a reformed "success" were sadly mistaken. Thompson went on writing to the day of his death-and spent most of the proceeds on laudanum...
...recent radar scare, which occured when radar scope operators in Washington, D. C., observed unexplained patterns on the screens of their instruments, is also explained. While radar cannot reflect an optical illusion, the radar beam itself may bounce around in such a manner that the "blips" produced can be mistaken for solid objects...