Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book jacket and title of The Deep End are blase; unfortunately, the content is not much different. Still, it is a shame that Chris Crutcher's publishers did not spend more on the title and jacket, because they mislead the reader into believing that the book is some excessively corny venue for housewives' entertainment...
...Crimson's record (1-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy) might mislead you into thinking that Harvard is having another mediocre season. In fairness to the Crimson, it's not. While the Crimson's play has been erratic, this Harvard squad is the same one that came a fourth-down conversion away from defeating Division I-A Army in West Point...
...repeated Gates's pledge to resign rather than mislead Congress or acquiesce in something improper, calling it "the strongest and clearest pledge ever made by any nominee...
...shortly after, were delighted to do that job. They frisked both Kryuchkov and Yazov; Kryuchkov offered no resistance, but the Defense Minister grumbled (neither was armed). Even then Rutskoi and his companions were worried that other plotters might try something. "We told the airport to prepare two planes to mislead the scoundrels," Rutskoi later said on Soviet television...
...That is much more upbeat than in France, where a Paris Match/B.V.A. poll last week showed that 70% of respondents feared degeneration into a third world war. But the hint of U.S. pessimism underscored a widespread feeling that the American people had been misled, or perhaps been encouraged to mislead themselves, about how hard it would be to dislodge Iraqis from Kuwait...