Word: mistakenness
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...Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, his condominiums by the sea in Miura. Driving his Ferrari around Roppongi, he was a curious figure with his droopy mustache and surgically altered, Westernized eyes. At 1.7 m tall, he wore shoe lifts and took regular doses of human growth hormone under the mistaken belief it would make him taller...
...little bit apart and aside in a society that has traditionally commanded full participation of its members. But they don't think of themselves as rebels, either. Mishima would hate these guys. Connoisseurs of the exotic will find little to savor here. American and European readers would be mistaken if they imagined these characters to be entirely familiar, but in their own quiet way they seem emblematic of creeping globalization in one of the world's most insular and traditional societies...
Saraiya, who also loaned the IC $700 at the February summit, said that Gee was mistaken if he expected immediate repayment...
...Government spin doctors rushed Monday to highlight the achievements of the program that caused the mistaken downing of the missionaries' plane. U.S. electronic intelligence-gathering planes patrol Latin America's airspace, feeding information on suspicious planes to local air forces, who are supposed to intercept the plane and follow a series of established procedures for establishing its identity, and then shoot it down if it fails to comply with directives to submit to a search...
...view that efforts at coercion and disruption, as opposed to discussion and persuasion, represent a proper means to achieve a desired result is mistaken, and inconsistent with the fundamental principles of a university," the letter reads...