Word: misinterpreting
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...prepared, which enabled Mrs. Ford to say, "As often as possible." An idle imagination could perhaps conceive still further questions-all in the name of candor-but it may be hoped that the press will now lapse into a discreet silence. And that the First Family will not misinterpret the lack of embarrassing questions as a mandate to answer them anyway. If candor at all costs is to become the supreme policy, there are a number of more important areas to which it might more usefully be applied...
...busts. In Chicago a foolish bigoted judge puts on a show for the electorate. It's Ash Wednesday and the jurors he addresses all sport ashened foreheads. "It was like the goddammed Spanish Inquisition." The plain clothesmen who are sent out to gather evidence against him misinterpret Yiddish phrases. Gestures of benediction are mistaken for gestures of masturbation. Meanwhile his earnings have gone down from $350,000 to $6,000 and he shuttles in and out of hospitals, claiming to his listener (and implicitly through Speiser to us) that his drug habit involves merely prescribed psychiatric medicine...
When I was the head of our party and government, we decreased the size of our army both in the Soviet Union and in the fraternal [Warsaw Pact] countries. Some people who read my memoirs may misinterpret that policy and say it was wrong for us to cut back our troop levels. I think the majority of those who might take this" view can be found among the military. However, I'm convinced we were right to do what we did. I'm still in favor of removing Soviet troops from other countries, and would fight for implementing...
...with no clear military necessity to do so, Israel may feel it can do no less. As long as the Egyptians remained on the east bank of the canal, Israel faced the threat of fighting long into the future. It also had to worry whether the Arabs would misinterpret an Israeli decision not to drive the Egyptians from the Sinai. The Arabs could conclude that Israel was too weak for the task, encouraging Arab hawks to try to capture more ground...
...final resignation should not be mistaken for euphoria, as it sometimes is. Passivity is a better description: "His circle of interest diminishes. He wishes to be left alone or at least not stirred up by news and problems of the outside world." The patient's family often misinterpret this state as rejection. "We can be of greatest service to them," the author reasons, "if we help them understand that only patients who have worked through their dying are able to detach themselves slowly and peacefully in this manner. It is during this time that the family needs the most...