Word: mistakenness
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That fact could not be mistaken. Day before the freezing order the President had explained why in the simplest vernacular. Talking off the cuff to a group of civilian-defense volunteers he made them a little homily so saltily effective and lucid that the critical Baltimore Sun allowed: "There was a bit of Lincoln in it." Said the President...
...Many butterflies have gleaming spots painted on their wings, which "by their general deceptive resemblance to the eye of some large vertebrate such as an owl . . . would be mistaken in the gloom by insectivorous birds and mammals for something on no account to be meddled with...
...Soldier Marshall had expected that Congress would hop to this suggestion, he was mistaken. In the week following his report, Congress kicked up enough rumpus to convince even the most unpolitical of soldiers that General Marshall's suggestion would have tough sledding. The Republican minority in both houses let newsmen know that they were against any extension of service, particularly for draftees. Certain Administration leaders said they too were against holding the draftees...
...speak of the action of the United States, but this I will say: If Hitler imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the slightest division of aims or slackening of effort in the great democracies, who are resolved upon his doom, he is woefully mistaken. . . . The Russian danger is ... our danger and the danger of the United States...
...final tatters of respectability were ripped last week from the old highfalutin promise that U.S. aluminum production capacity was plenty big enough for all needs. The Office of Production Management, whose high-rankers were parties to the mistaken promise, announced through OPM's Ed Stettinius aluminum's prospects for June. They were not pretty: defense was going to take nearly 100% of the month's production...