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...also agreed to pay the Ohmi union $133,000 in lost wages, a like amount (at the insistence of fellow manufacturers) to the All-Japan Textile Workers Union to make up for the trouble he had caused. "My friendship was misunderstood," wailed Natsukawa. "I seem to have lacked that modern way of thinking...
From earliest times, woman's womb and its workings have been grossly misunderstood. For centuries, the uterus was supposed to have an independent life and motility of its own. It was believed to be the cause of hysteria, which was derived from the Greek word for womb (varepo.). Even today, a "host of taboos, legends and mysteries" persist. So say two Salt Lake City psychiatrists in the current issue of GP (published by the American Academy of General Practice). According to Drs. C. H. Hardin Branch and David E. Reiser, "otherwise sophisticated and intelligent" women are extremely naive...
Thanks to the drumfire of Communist propaganda, plus our own errors, our aims are more and more misunderstood...
...been accepted either by the Congressional investigators or by that segment of public opinion which is more influenced by the vocabulary of professed anti-Communism that by the facts of the struggle for individual freedom. Harvard was under violent press and political attack by men who either misunderstood or misrepresented the nature of the issue and the realities of the decision, and the new President was himself a target of abuse. Nathan Pusey met this situation with a serene and quiet courage which did as much as the earlier acts of specific decision to affirm the continuing integrity...
...President Crawford Greenewalt its public face and spokesman. On the other hand, there are many corporate executives who still feel that when they have issued a handout to the press, they have done their duty. They make no attempt to make themselves available in press conferences, thus are often misunderstood or misrepresented by politicos or labor leaders...