Word: mistakenness
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...foreign markets. He chided his subordinates, faithfully clinging to yesterday's party line, for forgetting their lessons that "wars between capitalist countries [are] inevitable." Comrades who think that ideological rivalry between the Communist East and capitalist West is stronger than economic rivalry among the capitalist states "are mistaken. They see the outer phenomena twinkling on the surface . . . not . . . those deep forces which will determine the course of events...
...late as 1928, syphilis was in most parts of the U.S. still an unmentionable word in public print.* Metropolitan's ads first used it diffidently, in parentheses, but they forthrightly attacked "The Great Imitator" which, often mistaken for other diseases, was a factor in two out of every 13 U.S. deaths. By 1951, the syphilis death rate was down about 75%, and the disease has been off the schedule of published enemies since...
...unreasonable and as stupid about the Dean as the Dean is himself. We should try to help them to escape from that kind of fanatical disease. There is no charge against the Dean because he holds certain political and sociological views . . . he is fully entitled to hold these, however mistaken they may be . . . He has broken no law, civil or ecclesiastical...
...great convention-one of the greatest in U.S. history-and great in a particular way. Not in the level of its oratory, which can be appraised by noting that its best speech was made by Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover. Nor in its platform, which will never be mistaken for resonant prose. Nor in unity...
...mistaken, but I was under the impression that the late Professor Franklin McDuffee of Dartmouth also won the Newdigate in 1924 with his poem, Michelangelo...