Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very finest friends involved. I had many communications with Mr. Eden, who was then Prime Minister, and I said, 'We're not going to destroy the United Nations, and the United Nations says that these types of arguments must be solved peacefully.' But our action was misunderstood. The British press said that we had let them down. We hadn't, because we told the government exactly what we would do, but that was not publicized there. I think in the long run it has turned out to be a very fine decision...
TIME'S reportage certainly avoided the standard format "wine article," and wine drinkers and wine merchants everywhere should be grateful to TIME for shedding some light on one of the more widely misunderstood enjoyments of life...
Radioactive Clouds. What frightened the world more than the specter of Soviet military might was the reappearance, after a three-year absence, of a much-feared, fiercely debated and vastly misunderstood phenomenon: radioactive fallout. With radioactive clouds from the Soviet tests spinning around the earth, fallout was on almost everybody's mind. U.S. housewives worried that their milk might be contaminated by the tests or that their children might get cancer. The Finns worried that their reindeer meat might become radioactive when reindeers munched on contaminated lichen. Great Britain set up plans for rationing baby foods and dried milk...
...electoral system "which becomes a lottery at a certain stage . . . . I don't think the people are stupid, but there is little or no grasp of issues--if people are operating under a system they don't understand, it is no good." (The people of Cambridge seem to have misunderstood Proportional Representation for twenty years...
Osgood carefully formulated criteria for constructing unilateral initiatives, because "novel times produce the need for novel solutions." He insisted that words will be misunderstood until clarified by deeds, and added ironically that our government spends far less on thinking up initiatives than on paying 'experts' to hypothesize their failure...