Word: mistook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manager Gormley leaves his office to make last-minute checks with some of 800 employees. Eying crowds jammed behind restraining ropes at 13 entrances, he makes certain that nearby telephones are removed from their cradles. On more than one occasion, tense shoppers have stampeded when they mistook a phone ring for the gong announcing basement's opening...
...Faculty members, and received encouraging comments even from some professors usually most resistant to political change at Harvard. The detailed series of questions which May put to the Houses-should action-oriented or vocationally-oriented programs be given credit, for example-aroused some opposition from Faculty members who mistook them for specific proposals by the Dean when they were made public. This initial flare-up-only a small one in numbers, it seems-has now mostly quieted: by and large, the Faculty has settled down, and is willing to discuss and ultimately to act upon curricular reforms...
Penniless and stateless at the end of the war, Elmyr returned to Paris for some serious painting. In 1946, an English friend visited his studio and mistook one of his unsigned sketches for a Picasso. Fancying herself a bit of an expert, she offered to buy it. "Well, why not?" said Elmyr...
Early in his tenure, this lack mattered little. After Kennedy's murder, the country needed a figure to rally round. Then it needed a responsible alternative to Goldwater. Johnson mistook happenstance for deep, wide support and even for the affection he craved. "I'm sure glad," he would say in those days, "we got rid of that image that nobody likes Lyndon...
...think TIME somewhat mistook the emphasis of C. P. Snow's Westminster College speech. Snow's prediction of disaster was not premised upon a future failure of resources, nor upon blunders yet unmade -but on the continuation of present trends that show no sign of changing...