Word: misunderstands
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...provocation, he told his weekly press conference quietly that it would become the duty of the members of the U.N., which would include the U.S., "to oppose" the Russian volunteers. Privately he flashed a cable to Ambassador Bohlen instructing him to make absolutely sure that the Kremlin did not misunderstand U.S. intentions: if the Russians moved troops into the Middle East the U.S. would oppose them with arms. At an emergency meeting of the National Security Council that morning the President heard out the reports of his staff, picked off his glasses, and said grimly: "If they move...
Lest anyone misunderstand the purpose of a lot of talking and traveling that he will be doing between now and Nov. 6, Candidate Dwight Eisenhower took an opportunity to set the matter straight in his own plain language. Speaking last week before a crowd of 50,000 in Cleveland's public square, he took one look at the accomplishments of his Administration, another at what remains to be done in Washington, and amiably confessed he "sincerely and devotedly" wants to "continue the job." In order to do so, he needed something from his audience: "Your help...
...find out what makes the mathematician's brain work. In the hope of making arithmetic lively, some teachers insist on making each problem functional, as if there were nothing more to the subject than how to add up a grocery bill or compute compound interest. Such teachers completely misunderstand the adolescent, says Beberman. "The adolescent is the purest intellectual in our society. He doesn't have to be concerned with practical problems." The question that concerns him most...
...cross over into the other's territory with no thought at all about a theory of advising. An advising system as amorphous as this is bound to have some weak links in the chain of command. Although the advisers are given detailed information about course requirements of various misunderstand regulations or who are simply uninterested. Although the advisers are given detailed information about course requirements of various fields of concentration, there are always some who misunderstand regulations or who are simply uninterested. Although the Deans' Office attempts to match interests of students and adviser before assignment and tries to give...
...Eichelberger's case it goes with an almost evangelical fervor about athletics-and an athletic fervor about evangelism. "A lot of people don't understand how an athlete feels about religion," says Ike. "They think you sometimes are asking God to help you win, and they misunderstand. It's not like that really. I feel that everything I do is for Him, and that includes wrestling." When a Bethlehem fan asks Ike for his autograph, he follows his signature with the words, Galatians 6:14 ("But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross...