Word: misunderstand
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...have read an article in TIME [Oct. 7] which tells us that Lolos are "fierce isolationist natives." It is rather a great shame for Christians to misunderstand a nation with a population...
That was the nub of Jimmy Byrnes's speech, and he said it so that no one could misunderstand: "We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world. ... I want no misunderstanding. We will not shirk our duty. We are not withdrawing. As long as an occupation force is required in Germany the Army of the United States will be a part of that occupation force...
...neater, even more agreeable movie. Its story: an ingenuous sailor named Johnny Smith picks up with a Brooklyn-Irish girl named Katie. (Sands Street connects the Brooklyn Bridge with the Brooklyn Navy Yard.) After tinting a little of the town they retire to her room, very much in love, misunderstand each other before they can possibly worry censors, and lose each other...
...MacArthur made much progress with the inscrutable Jap mind, which has found it no trouble at all to evade or "misunderstand" his directives. Large landowners have proved especially skillful at dodging. Instead of breaking up their estates under MacArthur's ordered land reforms, many have just registered part of their holdings under other names...
...gave one measure of his world view. His innate interests and his knowledge were domestic; he did not pretend to know the world as Roosevelt knew it, and the world did not know him. When he spoke informally, in American idiom, the world was likely to misunderstand him. Apprehensive Britons, reading that he felt as if a bull had fallen on him, might mistakenly take him for a Throttlebottom. They would feel better if they knew that he had privately had a lot to do with the Senate resolution on world cooperation last year. They would also be wise...