Word: mistakenness
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...small part of a mass movement -that Russia, which needs men for her farms & factories in Armenia, was bringing Armenians back by the thousands from poorer European countries and the Middle East. All 150 had renounced their U.S. citizenship and were sailing as Russian immigrants, but some had the mistaken idea that they could come back to the U.S. after a while if they didn't like the U.S.S.R...
...soon stopped. A newsman asked for comment on an Eisenhower-for-President club which had recently sprung up in the capital, complete with secretaries and literature. Replied Ike, with some heat: "I deplore these activities. I earnestly think it is a mistaken idea...
...Circulo Militar, the Argentine Army officers' club in B.A., is stiff and dignified enough to be mistaken for the Foreign Office on the other side of the Plaza San Martin. At the Circulo last week, some 1,200 wives & daughters of Army officers gathered to honor Eva Duarte de Perón. But they did not don furs & feathers out of love for la Señora. This was a command performance arranged by Doña Ines Serpa de Sosa Molina, wife of Peron's Minister of War, to make up for snubs that...
...perfect 'substance.' In later life she realized that this had actually led her to think of Him as something like a vast tapioca pudding. (To make matters worse, she disliked tapioca.) We may feel ourselves quite safe from this degree of absurdity, but we are mistaken. If a man watches his own mind, I believe he will find that what profess to be specially advanced or philosophic conceptions of God are, in his thinking, always accompanied by vague images which, if inspected, would turn out to be even more absurd than the manlike images aroused by Christian theology...
Antonescu: "I wish to tell you that you are mistaken if you think you can save the country by an armistice...