Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable in the highest spots...
...bill of particulars said that all products thus guaranteed did not live up to the claims made for them, that the seals tend to "mislead and deceive" buyers. Further FTC complaints: that readers get the erroneous impression that all products advertised in Good Housekeeping are covered by such seals of approval; and that advertisers use the statement "guaranteed by Good Housekeeping as advertised therein" with the phrase "as advertised therein" so blurred or microscopic as to be almost unreadable...
With the grim reality of World War overshadowing all, there was no time during the vacation for Christmas cheer among the forces of William Allen White, Verne Marshall, the columnists and the politicians; they were too busy clarifying their positions and branding each other as small minorities seeking to mislead the people. The two weeks of the vacation witnessed a heightening tempo of war fever and of bitter debate, reaching a mighty crescendo in President Roosevelt's defiant message to Congress yesterday...
...inflation, hunger, humiliation, the Nazis. Oskar Graf thought more & more of his mother. He identified her with the masses, "the blameless German people . . . already behind the plow, in the workshops, factories, and offices, working as hard as ever, without particularly concerning themselves about the forces that were waiting to mislead and deceive them anew." At 70 his widowed mother was still wrapping her sore legs in herbs, tending her chickens, praying for her fallen-away...
...confronted the Senate sub committee that was to approve his Department of Justice appointment, his chief questioner was Borah. Arnold said he believed in the anti-trust laws. Said Borah, closing The Folklore of Capitalism: "I've been sadly misled by your book." In office, Arnold continued to mislead...