Word: misreads
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...uncorked a brilliant scoring salvo going around the last four holes in two under fours to draw within two of Tervainen. He feathered a seven-iron onto the par three second but misread the break on his birdie putt over the undulating green...
There is considerable evidence, however, that the AFL-CIO has badly misread the mood of Congress and the White House. The Congress...
...sunrise on the morning of his first exam, the sloth finally lifted himself from his chair and began to stumble northward toward Harvard Yard. He arrived there on time, but misread the location for Physics 907 on the exam schedule, unwittingly plopping himself down in the exam room for Adolescent Psych. Before a proctor could hand him a copy of the exam, the sloth was furiously scribbling quadratic equations into his blue book. But soon he lost patience, and digressed to a metaphysical discussion of his sexual malaise and acne problems...
...following day, the sloth again misread the schedule and hobbled into the exam room for Fiscal Policy, where he yawned for two hours, scribbled "life is fair, do nothing" in his blue book, then fell onto the floor and crawled out of the room on all fours...
...time the prosecution presented another witness, Howe's former campaign manager. He testified that immediately following his arrest Howe was worried that the police had a tape recording of the incident. (One reporter had seen the transcript of the conversation as recounted by one of the decoys and had misread a notation at the top. He reported that there was a tape of the encounter.) When Howe found that there was not a recording of the conversation, he told the campaign manager that he was going to stay in the race...