Word: mistakenness
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...cars cordoned off Jerusalem's central section, searched the crowds in public buildings. In the narrow area between the Jewish city of Tel Aviv and the Arab city of Jaffa, panic flickered among scores of jittery Jewish families. Plumbing signs marked on walls by sewer workers had been mistaken for Arab threats, and had raised visions of another St. Bartholomew's Eve. This week, Jews staged a general strike; Arabs planned to follow suit...
...confusion on the subject comes from the popular but mistaken idea that the soul is immortal, and is detached from the body at death, and survives as a separate living entity. Moses corrected this false idea centuries ago when he wrote: The life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11). The blood is in the body and the life is in the blood; not in a bloodless entity detached from the body, in life and in death...
Richard W. Barringer thinks "it is not too soon to make historical appraisal of the great Presidency recently ended." Mr. Barringer is mistaken. Better to have left the job to his great-grandson. By that time this great man will be rated as the one President in all time who made the world America-conscious; the one man who, had his health permitted, would today be leading the world out of the fog of disunity and uncertainty...
...Miss Josephine Piccolo, a Brooklyn textile inspector, he wrote: "My dear Dago: (If I am mistaken in this please correct me) ... Will you please keep your dirty proboscis out of the other 47 states, especially the dear old State of Mississippi...
...taught that next to God our loyalty belongs to our country. It is just such intense nationalistic feeling that causes wars. Such fervor caused the Nazis to try for world domination. Extreme nationalism is making us fear the Russians. It is making many men die on the battlefields for mistaken ideals...