Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgica farthest (both about 870 mi.) from the start. But Germany hotly filed a protest and a demand that the race be run over, claiming that Czechoslovakian planes had forced down two of the three German balloons. Czechoslovakia replied that its pilots were merely waving at the balloonists, who misunderstood the gesture as an order to descend. Germany retorted that the pilots waved pistols. At week's end the International Aeronautic Federation was still pondering the squabble, had not announced a winner...
They had just had to leave one job in a hurry because Lennie's passion for petting things had been misunderstood by a frightened little girl. On the new ranch everything went all right at first. Lennie was a terrific worker, did beautifully as long as George was at hand to tell him what to do. It looked for a while as if they could really make their stake, buy their little farm, settle down to make their dream come true. But then things began to go wrong. The boss's son was an ugly customer...
...feel constrained to make this statement because it has already been publicly announced that several members of our faculty intend to vote for Mr. Roosevelt, and we would not have our silence misunderstood. In doing so we speak for ourselves...
Chamberlain had been "misunderstood"; Comrade Cahan ceased fulminating; Moscow appeared willing that its notes should suffer the delay of being sent to Rome, Berlin and Lisbon to be answered at leisure; Ambassador Grandi and Prince von Bismarck agreed on second thought to transmit the notes to Rome and Berlin; Lord Plymouth undertook to inform the Portuguese Government; and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who had left Monte Carlo in a hurry, ate a placid lunch in Paris with socialist French Premier Leon Blum. The Frenchman calmed his British guest greatly by saying that Paris would not join Moscow in precipitant intervention...
...Corrispondenza news agency came still another explanation of the Coughlin conundrum in which everyone seemed to be contradicting everyone else as to just where the Detroit priest stood with Rome: "The bishop came and received from the Vatican the most precise and unmistakable instructions that cannot be misunderstood-namely, to moderate the ardor of an orator who should have refrained from attacks of a political character, especially personal, and also renounce the forming of political parties and confine himself to a precise illustration of the social doctrines of the church...