Word: astraye
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...indispensable and extremely dangerous, involving always the hazards of the self being ceded to the larger purposes of the fatherland. Hitler had a sinister little instinct for patriotic sentiment. Patriotism, or a debased form of it, raucous with jingo and the bully's knuckles, has led the U.S. astray from time to time; citizens hounded German Americans during World War I, for example. They did idiotic and ominous things-fulminating that Einstein's theory of relativity had Bolshevist origins, and acclaiming the neonativist persecution of immigrants with socialist ideas...
...once crowned King of England, spent money lavishly, on art, theater, palaces, women. Fraser, while delighting in details of court life, argues strenuously that we mustn't blame Charles for spending too much--he did it to maintain the prestige of the monarchy. Her affection for Charles leads her astray here: surely there was no need to have three royal mistresses at once on the royal payroll, and his nephew William, acceding to the throne in equally shaky circumstances, spent in his first year only slightly over half what Charles...
Like the mysterious stranger in Mark Twain's tale, the FBI brought a bag of gold to tempt politicians. Did those who fell for the Abscam sting have only themselves to blame or can they, like Hadleyburg, blame the stranger for leading them astray? This question lies at the heart of the uproar over the tactics used to catch public officials in the act of allegedly taking a bribe. Did they willingly commit a crime, if indeed a crime was committed, since the charges have not yet been filed? Or were they tricked into wrongdoing by a Government...
...enable the missile's guidance system to fly the bomber. Each model will also have ten freeflight tests. Some will be like last week's exercise, while others will follow a zigzag course from the Pacific back to the Utah range. Should an ALCM go astray, an F-4 Phantom jet flying along would take over its guidance system...
...Sustainer of the Worlds; Most Gracious, Most Merciful; Master of the Day of Judgment. Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek. Show us the straight way, the way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, those whose (portion) is not wrath, and who go not astray...