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Chamberlin and Reischauer also conflicted over disposition of anti-Communist North Korean prisoners. Reischauer felt that the Communists misunderstood the prisoners' wishes. "To them, all common people were on their side. This violent refusal to return is most embarrassing to the Reds, and a potent propaganda weapon...
...Quite as important as...age is...marital state. No experienced patient will admit to being unhappily married or, far worse, divorced; for she well knows the automatic train of thought such an admission will set in motion: a divorced woman is a misunderstood woman; a misunderstood woman is an unsatisfied woman; a woman who cannot lead a full sex life will clearly suffer damage in body and soul. This chain of reasoning cannot be broken-not even by an assurance that one is leading the life of a wanton...
...Cover) Four men collected the information, traveling across the U.S. for 15 years with the patient persistence of secret agents. They tried to be inconspicuous; they knew that they might be misunderstood...
...often said that Taft was misunderstood. Many people misunderstood him, but not his enemies. They caricatured and distorted him before the public, but they understood him very well. Taft was against the spread of federal power; his welfare bills gave jurisdiction to the states. He stood in the way of collectivists of all varieties,-from the creeping to the rampant. He was against their kind of progress...
Byrd took the floor for one of his rare speeches. "A debt limit of $275 billion," he said, "is as much or more than this country should be called on to stand . . . An increase in the debt limit at this time would be misunderstood...