Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most radars can cope with this fairly simple trick, so well-furnished bombers will probably carry decoys to mislead sophisticated radars. When the bombers have been illuminated and are likely to be attacked, they will launch small, fast missiles with transmitters that have been tuned to copy the reflected signals of the enemy's radar or with radar-reflecting devices that make them look bigger than they are. Such a decoy is hard to distinguish from a real bomber, and an attacking interceptor or missile is apt to "lock onto" it and let the bomber escape. Nature thought...
...years he sheltered his friende Trotsky from Stalin's international assassins. After Trotsky was killed, Rivera explained away his own attacks on Stalin as "just a trick to mislead the stockholders of Bethlehem Steel." He made a trip to Moscow two years ago for a cure for cancer, came back to report that "throughout Russia there are no secrets, no censorship restrictions. Every single person in Russia has television...
Sophisticated students may ridicule the A and those who seek it. But when they accept a lower mark, perhaps a B-, as minimal for self-respect, they are mislead into believing that B- stands for an important, measurable level of learning...
Thomas F. Stone, president of the Harvard University Employees Association, charged yesterday that AFL organizers are attempting to mislead University employees by claiming victories in jurisdictional elections at the bindery and Department of Athletics...
...charged that the protest "could be a delaying tactic to mislead a lot of people." Stone said that the local had previously agreed to the eligibility of the two individuals whose votes could decide the jurisdictional election...