Word: misreads
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Perhaps I misread, for along with all of the above distractions I was at that moment busy ticking off an inexperienced crewman (named Malcolm Forbes) for his mishandling of the stern sheet. Yet I think I am correct in my recollection that Mr. Snotbottom advocated mandatory clothing for all Daily News reporters, at least when engaged in discharging their journalistic duties...
...theory of date rape is that men and women tend to misread each other's signals, particularly a soft-spoken no that many males assume means yes or at least maybe. Says one student at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.: "There are different kinds of nos. 'Noooo . . .' is one thing. 'NO, get your filthy hands off me!' is another." Some feminists argue that the U.S. has a "rape culture" in which males are encouraged to treat women aggressively and women are trained to submit. Some surveys back up that dark ideological view of male sexual behavior. In Koss's study...
...think he's been misread," says Carolivia...
...most difficult challenges. Our biggest problems are the economy and the Communist insurgency. I believe you can't solve the one without working at the other. The Communist leadership here either misread or misjudged the last election. In effect, they worked against me. But the past is the past, and it is better for us to look ahead and work together because of the enormity of our problems...
Even some of Reagan's supporters feel he made a basic political misjudgment by jumping into the debate over sanctions with nothing new to offer at a time when something more was needed. He seemed also to misread the depth of sentiment on the issue. While just about everyone is repelled by the oppression in South Africa and thinks something should be done about it, there is no clear consensus on what. Reagan, by heightening the visibility of the subject without offering a solution, succeeded only in exposing his own policies to closer inspection and greater criticism...