Word: mistakenness
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...newborn bat was a female albino. Dubkin had often regretted that he could not tell the bats apart. Now he watched the birth of one that could not be mistaken for another. He named her "The White Lady" and resolved to watch her through her entire life cycle...
...Douglas, in dissent, said: "The Feinberg Law proceeds on a principle repugnant to our society--guilt by association. A teacher is disqualified because of her membership in an organization found to be 'subversive.' The very threat of such procedure is certain to raise havoc with academic freedom. Youthful indiscretions, mistaken causes, misguided enthusiasm--all long forgotten--become ghosts of a harrowing present...
...regrettable that this matter has not received previous mention. We expected that other freshmen, witnesses to the affair, would have written to the CRIMSON, commenting on it. Apparently we were mistaken, hence our belated action. James Bows, Jr. '55 J. Max Bond...
...because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan was to rob the apartment on the first visit, but Guidice was scared of the butler. "I froze," he explained with the air of a peasant who had seen his king. "I just froze up there." On their "mistaken" package they left the label of a real dry cleaner for whom Paladino used to work, and that was their undoing. Employees of the cleaning establishment told police that the not-so-brainy Paladino had recently been asking searching questions about the Parnis apartment...
...Chambers explains to them-and to the world-why he became a Communist, why he left the party in 1938 and what the real issues were in the Hiss trials. To many people, he says, the Hiss case has become just "another crime drama in which the props [were] mistaken for the play . . ." Actually, the trials were a battleground on which "the two irreconcilable faiths of our time-Communism and Freedom-came to grips...