Word: mistakenness
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...through charging Ed Pauley with an attempt at political bribery, Mr. Truman had only two choices: to withdraw Pauley's nomination as Under Secretary of the Navy, or slap Ickes down. Last week Harry Truman slapped Ickes down, by saying that the Curmudgeon could very well have been mistaken...
...room that held both Bevin and Molotov would never be mistaken for a college reunion. But after the table-thumping displays of bad manners at London, the air of sober, workmanlike cordiality at Moscow seemed reassuring...
...Mistaken for the highest code in the U.S. Intelligence files, CINCRTO dispatched a plane post haste to deliver the vital missive in a hollow bomb. Fortunately, it arrived in time for a wardroom celebration on the last two inches of scotch in the medical officer's stores...
...labor unions believe they are doing something for their cause they are certainly mistaken. . . . They are losing a prestige among 6,000,000 troops which took years to build...
Lord Keynes, adviser to the British Treasury, now in Washington on business (TIME, Oct. 8) wrote to London's New Statesman and Nation to clear up two slight cases of mistaken identity: 1) because he had concluded his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace with a few lines from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a lot of people got the idea that Keynes himself had written them; 2) another time he quoted 20 lines of Milton's Samson Agonistes, and was paid for them "at so much a word . . . though my glory was a little dimmed...