Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Granting the value of such a code of behaviour, how is one to put it into practice? One person's isolated resolve to treat his next outing with the opposite sex as a shared endeavor would be instantly misunderstood and ridiculed. Such an action constitutes too violent a rejection of the generally accepted value-system of this society. No matter if the courtesy of paying for the girl turns out to be malignant, no one person can make a dent in the established way of doing things. Imagine going up to the average slick Cliffie intimating that...
...discussion, Pusey was complaining, "I'm not sure I understand you," or "Where do we disagree?" and at the end, he was saying the same thing. If a student or Faculty member asked a new question on an already-discussed issue, Pusey always assumed that he had simply been misunderstood the first time, so he would say, "Let me try again...
...South Cove Project features two highly unusual and greatly misunderstood projects: the Tufts Complex and the New England Medical Center involves the use of the new Quincy School not only as a school but also as a community health resource with all the social amenities and health services made available in that building. A plan for the expansion of the N.E. Medical Center has also been worked out with the neighborhood. It is substantially a horizontal design which has already been given an award from London "as one of the ten most outstanding architectural innovations in the world...
...while dropping napalm on another country? If peace is the product of understanding, respect, and economic development, the need to work for peace is real in several score of countries whether or not there is peace in Vietnam. The imperative may indeed be greater as there is so much misunderstood and remaining to be said about Vietnam...
Chief source of their trouble is the widely misunderstood liability coverage-which is quite unlike other forms of insurance. When a person buys fire, medical or collision insurance, his company pays him directly for his losses. But a liability policy does not protect a driver against the cost of injury to himself; it protects him against the possibility of having to pay for someone else's injuries in the event that a court finds him at fault. Once that happens, the driver's company must pay the judgment against him. And with its own money at stake...