Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, officials called him "Mr. Brown." He signed no pact, returned to Russia with the hypocritical and widely misunderstood statement of "complete agreement on the urgency of a second front in 1942." As the record later showed, there was no agreement, no promise; for their different purposes, President Roosevelt and the Russians had bamboozled their own peoples and the world...
...TIME understood the facts, regrets that its condensed presentation of them was misunderstood by Commissioner Moses. The $100,000 (which still seems like a "fancy" figure for a city the size of Portland) will be divided as follows: Moses' engineers, $80,000; Moses' legal staff, $6,000; Moses and "immediate staff...
When Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce made her famed "globaloney" speech last February, enemies of postwar planning seized on the word. Clare Luce complained that she had been misunderstood. Last week she spoke up again, this time on U.S. foreign policy...
...stop youthful hoodlumism, started a kind of grown-up Boys Club for the zooters. He knew that they represented a basic American problem: the second generation. Their fathers and mothers were still Mexicans at heart. They themselves were Americans - resented and looked down on by other Americans. Jobless, misunderstood in their own homes and unwelcome outside them, they had fallen into the companionship of misery. They dressed alike, in the most exaggerated and outlandish costume they could afford: knee-length coats, peg-top trousers, yard-long watch chains, "ducktail" haircuts...
...this delicate film of intercourse, of mutual visiting and mutual speech, misunderstood, overrated, and abominably overcharged as it has been with blatancy and mistranslation and deceit, lies part of the world's hope. It is the hope that some day all the media of intercourse may be free, and the important ones as responsible as they are free, that speech between the great regions may become more modest and exact, that respect for one another's differences and charity to ward one another's faults may be taught through the air and on the screen along with...