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Word: misunderstood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finding their English misunderstood un less spoken with a French accent, instructors soon learned to say "Zis ees zee way" instead of "This is the way." The apt Frenchmen were soon embellishing their meager English with a Southern accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Free French | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...more popular light last week. The new Lord Templewood (the old Sir Samuel Hoare), long considered an appeaser and compromiser with Fascism, came back from almost five years as British Ambassador to Franco to speak his mind about totalitarianism. Either he had changed or he had been much misunderstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Old Statesman, New View | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Extend our deepest sympathies to our misunderstood, despairing soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Without these clearances, the bigwigs gloomily predicted that the first cars may not roll out till as late as nine months after V-E day. Added G.M.'s Wilson: Home Front Tsar Jimmy Byrnes must have "misunderstood" the problem when he blithely predicted cars within three months after Germany quits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Nine Months or Two | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...Normal" people discredited Rembrandt, misunderstood El Greco, reviled Blake, ignored Cézanne, drove Van Gogh to suicide and Gauguin into exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1944 | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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