Word: mistakenness
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...Ingram, North Carolina Negro farmer, went on trial last week, charged with assaulting a 17-year-old tobacco grower's daughter, although he had not been within 50 feet of her at the time. In the first trial in recorder's court, Ingram explained that he had mistaken blue-jeaned Willa Jean Boswell for one of her brothers, had started to follow her across a cornfield to ask if he could borrow the family trailer. When she took fright and ran, he turned back to his car. The judge, acting on the basis of a North Carolina...
...York City tavern owner in a holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery as a result of mistaken identity (TIME, Aug. 6, 1945 et seq.). After Campbell was released, Reporter Mowery was flooded with letters from other prisoners asking help in getting them...
...article appearing in your issue of November 6, 1952, about my experiences with the Peron regime, there is one mistaken reference that certainly needs rectification. Explaining the reasons why my citizenship was revoked by the rubber-stamp Peronista congressional majority in June, 1951, your reporter says that I "urged the United States intervene and oust Peron." This statement is entirely false. I never urged any country to intervene to oust Peron, since that is--and should be--the business of the Argentine people exclusively. In fact, it was only the Peronista press--which has slandered me in every conceivable...
...chief drawbacks: ¶It gives only "passive," short-lived immunity (five weeks' protection from an average dose). "Active," permanent immunity must still be developed by each individual in fighting off a mild attack by the polio virus-the kind of attack that often goes unnoticed or is mistaken for a cold...
...guess," he added, with admirable restraint, "Little was sort of mistaken...