Word: misreads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the Hangover. A quickie election, while the Iranian masses are still drunk on the heady wine of nationalism, and before the economic hangover hits them, is almost sure to return Mossadegh to power. The British, who had confidently predicted his downfall, looked glum: once again they had misread the Iranians and their wily old leader...
Several voters and at least one candidate protested that two candidates had been mistakenly listed on the ballot as Dunster residents. Sandler said his only explanation was that a secretary had misread the name of the House while typing the petitions...
Fortunately, says Historian Berrill, Columbus did not know all that modern natural historians know. He sailed on & on, believing that each dawn would light a distant rock. Each misread sign gave his fractious sailors a new shot of hope too. On their tenth day out of San Sebastian, they had more water before them than behind...
According to Sargent Kennedy, Registrar, about a dozen students a term misread their exam schedules and show up in the right place at the wrong time, or vice versa. Most common misreading of the printed schedules seems to be the result of a sort of Freudian censorship, whereby the student replaces "9:15" by "2:15" in his sub-conscious, and never knows the difference...