Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where, he says, "my duty was to keep the humble back pages of the paper fit to print. When I detected a Position Wanted Female ad worded 'Young girl, inexperienced, will do anything,' I would call up that young girl and tell her that she might be misunderstood." For the next ten years Leonard free-lanced, writing books (Enjoyment of Science, etc.), articles & fiction for slick paper magazines...
...Russia Walter Bedell Smith and finally Secretary of State Marshall to testify. With one voice, they said that it was "folly" to spend millions for foreign aid and relief without explaining U.S. aims. Said Secretary Marshall: "We have no idea how little we are understood, how much we are misunderstood...
...three Presidents of the United States: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Pardon me, I am wrong; it has lately transpired there was another President called Something Wilson, who was devoted to his family, and liked to stand by the piano, listening to old songs. He was shockingly misunderstood...
...valedictory press conference last week, Chen said he had been misunderstood. His monopoly system was a device for government revenue only. Besides, said Chen: "I never forgot private enterprise. I always intended to re-establish...
...with the bald, freckled pate twinkled as he said: "I hope you won't applaud me when I finish this announcement. It might be misunderstood." Then Claude Moore Fuess (rhymes with peas) told his faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass, that he was retiring-after 40 years, 15 of them as headmaster...