Word: mis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shipping records and realized that while 40 million bushels of feed had left U.S. ports, only 16 million had ever reached Austria. Six Austrian grain importers were arrested and released on bail ranging up to $200,000, one of the highest figures in the country's history, for "mis-labeling." Since the U.S. Government demands cash or letters of credit in advance from U.S. exporters involved in grain barter deals, the U.S. stands to incur no direct losses...
...season at a time. They learned better merchandising, pushed brand names with national advertising, mailers and store displays. Increasing capital and slower style changes have allowed them to concentrate on quality control and have reduced the eternal Seventh Avenue panic over a thousand dozen garments turned out with mis-tailored sleeves or weepy dyes...
...failure to remember is responsible for immense fear Americans have of revolution today, and the fear in turn attests to the rest of the world how right they are "to think of revolution only in terms of the French Revolution," Mis Arendt says. In another quote you won't see in Time she calls "fear of revolution the hidden leitmotif of postwar American foreign policy in its desperate attempt at stabilization of the status quo, with the result that American power and prestige were used and misused to support obsolete and corrupt political regimes that long since had become...
...housewife, it seemed a shame that little boys all around were quitting French classes out of boredom. She herself had minored in French at the University of Michigan, practiced it in Paris, and developed a passion for French literature. Not long ago, she reread Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and observed, "Hugo has more adventure than Davy Crockett"-a thought that led readily to the idea of putting Hugo into a comic strip...
Amateur Cartoonist Kincaid's Contes Français now reaches 1,209,000 subscribers to five daily newspapers, from the Toledo Blade to the Detroit News. The plot is Les Misérables, "adapted to a sixth-grader's interest," and the grammar is passably taxing. Cosette : "Je voudrais alter voir cette cathedrale, père!" Valjean: "Nous irons demain." Admittedly no linguist, Mrs. Kincaid checks each strip with a retired French professor, but so far she has not failed...