Word: misreads
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...late fifties, when the South was preparing to close down its schools in protest against the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation decision, McGill's daily front-page columns were avidly read and misread by both Southern racists and Northern liberals. To the grasseaters of rural Georgia he was a "race-mixer" and worse; former governor Eugene Talmadge referred to him as "Rastus McGill." To the liberals he was the South's single beacon of rationality; they were apt to overlook his claim that "this was never a question of being for integration or against...
Divide by 10. That theory was proposed in 1960 by University of Athens Seismologist Anghelos Galanopoulos, who believes that Plato misread by a factor of 10 the dimensions of Atlantis and the date of its destruction given in an Egyptian manuscript. Dividing by 10, Galanopoulos came up with an area roughly encompassing Thera and Crete; similarly reducing Platos date to 900 years before Solon, he moved the destruction of Atlantis forward to about 1490 B. C. At about that time, a well-documented volcanic eruption plunged large portions of Thera into the sea, rained lethal vapors and debris on Crete...
...final session, Johnson persuaded the Koreans and the Vietnamese that Point 29 would not be misread as a hedge for a U.S. pullout at any price. "Nobody can accuse us of a soft attitude," said the President. "If anyone doubts the basis of our commitment, they will find that we have more troops in Viet Nam than there are words in the Webster's New Dictionary...
...records the subject's pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and perspiration flow. The obvious weakness is not the machine but the man who interprets it. One study found that a good polygrapher is wrong three out of ten times. But no one really knows. A bad polygrapher can easily misread emotionally disturbed subjects, a suspect who, contrary to good polygraph policy, has been subjected to extended questioning just before testing, or even a badly frightened innocent. No American court yet admits lie-detector evidence without agreement providing for its admission...
Having shot up to precarious heights, as manufacturers misread the strength of future demand, business inventories of furniture and appliances are now dwindling, owing to production cutbacks. Gains in new orders and indus trial production eased for the second straight month in June, reported the National Association of Purchasing Agents. "It's the same old summer slump," said Allegheny Ludlum Steel's E. F. Andrews, "but it's hitting a little earlier and sharper than usual...