Word: misunderstood
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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...
...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...
Extend our deepest sympathies to our misunderstood, despairing soldiers...
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...
...Normal" people discredited Rembrandt, misunderstood El Greco, reviled Blake, ignored Cézanne, drove Van Gogh to suicide and Gauguin into exile...