Word: dishonestly
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...about the accepted view that a Communist professor is automatically dishonest and thus unfit to teach? "The fundamental principle of American justice," says Machlup, is "that guilt is personal and cannot be proved by opinion or association; we cannot make party membership a decisive criterion." If the Communist is demonstrably dishonest, he must go. Then, suppose he honestly preaches totalitarianism? "If we silence him," says Machlup, "then we have actually abrogated freedom of speech, whereas he has merely talked about doing...
President Kennedy's blundering attempt to make the American people believe that the supplies sent to Castro were voluntary contributions was a flagrantly dishonest...
...guidance counselors who subscribe to the center's reports Cat $22.50 a year). One effect is to undercut a racket that has grown up from the rush for higher education. To the dismay of reputable college counselors, a number of unscrupulous advisers work covert retainers from academically weak, dishonest colleges, charge parents big fees to get dull-witted youngsters into those same colleges-and then get a kickback (10% of tuition) from the college...
...employer an obituary on Eleanor Roosevelt. Said the man who long delighted in calling Mrs. Roosevelt "La Boca Grande" while she was alive: "I haven't changed my mind. The press eulogized her as the first lady of the world, but I think it's undignified and dishonest to call her that. I think she was a terrible quack...
...want of legible maps, for want of sensible continuity, the spectator fails to grasp the operation as a whole: he often does not know where in hell or Normandy he is or why in the general scheme of things he is there. Worst of all, the film is dishonest. Though it is superficially true to the facts as Ryan reports them, it is fundamentally false to the spirit of the events. Most of the time, Zanuck shamelessly sugars his bullets-men die by the thousands, but not one living wound, not one believable drop of blood is seen...