Word: mistook
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When his mother mistook him for an SS officer, Moti Mark knew something had to be done. Mark, then Israel's chief government psychiatrist, had taken time out from army reserve duty to visit his mother at Gea Hospital...
More than a few Harvard students have told the tale of how they confusedly stumbled onto the grounds of Lesley College, perhaps of how they at first mistook the fully female student body as some peculiar extension of the law school. But many more have never even heard of the institution. Details about this women’s college remain a quiet mystery. And yet the Lesley girls are eager to break the silence. There are a few things that they think people should know about them. At the top of the list: that they exist...
During his year as a Harvard undergraduate, Narayan Shrestha was with the late king of Nepal--gunned down in his palace last Friday--so often that people mistook him for the king's bodyguard...
...Perhaps the most telling experience was a night of munchies that descended upon the Wigglesworth suite while watching Saturday Night Live. One of the roommates mistook a candle shaped as a hamburger for something eatable. The next day we were trying to match dental records with teeth imprints on the wax hamburger while stumbling over a half dozen spent pizza boxes...
...Perhaps the most telling experience was a night of munchies that descended upon the Wigglesworth suite while watching Saturday Night Live. One of the roommates mistook a candle shaped as a hamburger for something eatable. The next day we were trying to match dental records with teeth imprints on the wax hamburger while stumbling over a half dozen spent pizza boxes...