Word: mistakenness
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...Meng had become valuable propaganda material for the Reds in Asia by maintaining that she was someone else, a victim of mistaken identity and British injustice. Now the Reds were admitting her complicity by revealing how highly they value her life...
Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, assistant professor of History, evaluated Lattimore's major importance as his awakening of the public to the importance of the far eastern area. He and Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, agreed that although many of Lattimore's observations were mistaken, even a bad policy was better than none...
...whose masculinity was not evident at birth, so he has been reared as a girl. It is one thing, and fairly simple, to operate and make him what nature originally intended, but the social readjustment from girlhood to boyhood is forbiddingly difficult. The less common cases of girls mistaken for boys are just as tough...
...committee vote turned out to be the result of a misunderstanding: some Congressmen had a mistaken idea that Ike was agreeable to having his reorganization powers curtailed. This was straightened out, and last week the House voted to continue the powers held by Harry Truman (i.e., a reorganization action may be overruled only by a majority of the full membership of the House). The count: 389 for extending presidential powers, five against. The Senate concurred on a voice vote...
...Melchiore Luise, Scipio Colombo Juan Oncina; Vienna Chamber Chorus and State Opera Orchestra conducted by Argeo Quadri; Westminster, 2 LPs). This was Donizetti's 63rd opera, and it is a charmer with a quenchless flow of melody and fun involving the usual opéra bouffe case of mistaken identity. Beautifully sung and played, and resonantly recorded...