Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story ended with a touch that must have caused the real Zuleika's knights to roll over in their watery grave. It turned out that some voters had totally misunderstood the poll's purpose. Fifteen percent had thought they were voting for the girl they would most like to jump into the river with, and 10% thought they were choosing the girl they most wanted to throw...
...manage to understand each other. It is not enough to say that a few men in the Kremlin will deny to a large number of people the chance to learn. It is not enough to say that our motives, which we think of as altruistic and pure, "are certainly misunderstood in South America . . . Now we must find out why we are misunderstood ... If the London Congress [begins] the solution of this problem . . . we will be doing a great deal to eliminate the causes of war. If in the measurable future we don't find some way of eliminating...
...Mexico's Protestant Governor Thomas J. Mabry deplored efforts "to stir up religious misunderstanding." From the state's Catholic hierarchy came a statement: "The authorities of the Church in New Mexico have in no manner whatsoever entertained the muchly haunted and often misunderstood so-called union of church and state. It was only through a high sense of duty of her mission to promote the welfare of human society that the Church permitted itself to accept the office of teacher in the public schools. The Church desires only that justice be done and good will preserved...
Educators who opposed the velleities of the President's report were slow to speak up; they were afraid they might be misunderstood. But here & there a voice was raised. First was the Commission on Liberal Education of the Association of American Colleges, which carries some top names in U.S. education, led by Gordon Keith Chalmers, president of Ohio's Kenyon College. But the commission's phrases made no headlines. U.S. colleges, the commission insisted, had always insisted on students with "above average capacity." Did that make them "aristocratic," as the President's Commission had suggested...
...TIME pleads guilty to the U.S. custom of applying the word divorced to both parties, regrets that its U.S. usage was misunderstood in England, assures the Duchess of Westminster that it had no intention of accusing her of having been the guilty party...