Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More Bombs than Ever" [Jan. 1]: The American people have been forced to suffer through a decade of broken promises from their Government. It is apparent that as the years pass, the Administration's ability to mislead only seems to improve. As tons of bombs rain down on the Vietnamese people. President Nixon speaks of a "generation of peace." One is left to wonder what generation the President is talking about...
...article on Black English [Aug. 7]: I am sorry to say that the theories of my friends and colleagues Joe Dillard and Bill Stewart, as reported in your article, contain a number of inaccuracies that may mislead your readers...
...using stolen documents, Anderson has no scruples, except that he and his staff do no pilfering themselves. He says that he believes the Constitution to be divinely inspired-an idea he derives from Mormon theology-and he interprets it as forbidding Government secrecy that allows officials to mislead the public. "The framers of the Constitution did not intend that," he maintains...
...situation in Connecticut was special-but not the anger at politicians who seem to mislead the public. A milder form of that anger was directed here and there at the Administration for continuing to issue rosy proclamations about the economy. Republican James Scheurenbrand, a bank president in Evanston, Ill., plans to vote for Nixon again, but he recently objected that "glowing statements from Washington are at variance with what people are experiencing. There is too much hard sell. It's eroding the Administration's credibility. People are looking for real answers." Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware recently...
...Extremism in any movement-despite its attention-getting value-scares off potential followers, and makes it all too easy for dissenters to attack or ridicule its aims. Women's Lib is no exception. There is the further danger that female chauvinism will mislead and confuse the women themselves, particularly younger ones who have little experience to give them ballast. Consider, for example, the consequences of distorting or exaggerating three of the movement's most enlightening propositions...