Word: misreadings
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...result was an 8-lb. boy named Thomas Knack, whose coming was no cause for celebration in the Knack household. The husband is a low-wage railroad worker already supporting five children. He blamed the local pharmacist, who had misread the handwriting on Frau Knack's prescription, for the birth of Thomas. Arguing that the error would strain the family budget, the Knacks took Pharmacy Owner Hans Reimer to court to recover damages...
...Bruins disappointed us last weekend. It looked so fine: a Dartmouth team traveling down to Providence to get dumped by lowly Brown. But, then alas, the schedule had been misread. It was the opposite: Brown was going to Hanover--to get butchered. Providence gets the action this weekend for what used to be a traditional Thanksgiving Day game. Brown's a bunch of turkeys. Colgate 31, Brown...
...lesser degrees, other aspects of the economy have long been equally underestimated. Industry misread the demand for electronic equipment, xerography, synthetics and plastics. Government underestimated not so much the demand but the need for improved expressways, bridges, air-pollution controls, airport facilities, and the roads and devices that will make congested city traffic move more rapidly. Recreational facilities are in short supply because everyone underestimated the combined impact of increased leisure time and higher disposable income; to tee off for a game of golf on weekends has become a long and frustrating process, as many golfers can attest...
...pattern over several months Ray had appropriated four aliases from Torontonians, all from men who live around the suburb of Scarborough and bear varying degrees of likeness to Ray. In July 1967, Ray took the name of Warehouse Supervisor Eric St. Vincent Gait, 54, whose signature he had apparently misread as Eric Starvo Gait. As does Ray, Gait has scars on his forehead and right palm and could pass for 40, Ray's age. John Willard, 42, the name used by the man who rented the room in Memphis 13 paces away from the bathroom where King...
...break up the game but never does. But in the end, it is the author's stylized and intentionally visible hand that collects all bets. Martha succumbs meekly to pneumonia. Franz, relieved of his responsibilities as stud and killer, leaps into madness. Dreyer continues good-naturedly to misread all signs...