Word: misreadings
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Former Vice President Mondale. now practicing law with the well-connected Washington firm of Winston & Strawn, has been on the move hustling money for his 1984 campaign and expressing the quite novel theory that Reagan had misread the American mood. From the halls of academe, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., an unreconstructed Kennedyite, endorsed the view that Reagan's budget cutting is a "dangerous course...
...petition for a rehearing states that the justices misread applicable statutes when they unanimously upheld the city's controversial restrictions on condominium conversion...
...Lord Jeffs converted another Harvard mix-up into their second score 15 minutes into the second half. Crimson goalie Phil Coogan misread a defender's signal and came out of the net to stop the play, but ended up just missing the ball...
...show is taped in its entirety, and if nothing goes wrong, the tape is simply replayed at 7. Tonight's broadcast was good, but Max Robinson, who is subbing for Reynolds in Washington tonight, says that he misread his opening. Though nobody else had noticed, he forgot to say the word "near," as in "the framework of a plan to free the hostages is in place or near at hand." The mistake is not very important, but Robinson nonetheless goes live for the first few seconds of the third show to rectify the error...
...Napoleon's script was so miserable that one of his generals once mistook a letter of his for battle orders. Charles Hamilton, a Manhattan dealer in autographs and manuscripts, contends that Writer Gertrude Stein's oblique prose style may be explained by the fact that compositors often misread her cryptic script. Poet William Butler Yeats often could not read his own work. Horace Greeley, the editor of the old New York Tribune, had a notoriously illegible scrawl. He once scribbled a note to a reporter telling him he was fired for incompetence; so indecipherable was the missive that...