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Word: misheard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Enter Phil Luckett, bless his heart. In the now-infamous coin toss, Luckett succumbed to a moment of aural hallucination and misheard Jerome Bettis's call of tails, awarding Detroit possession...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Unofficials | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...which President Clinton takes her box of chocolates -- leaving her one piece -- and asks if she doesn't have some french fries to go with it. A drawling Mrs. Clinton also reveals that she once advised Jimmy Carter to give a speech about mayonnaise, but the former president misheard her and instead held forth on "malaise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS? | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

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