Word: distortive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget big fingers and chocolate milk, the rhetorical flashpoints for attacking council incompetence, they distort the enormous lack of commitment that members of the council have made to the undergraduate community that they purport to represent. More than half the members of the body, who are asked to attend fewer than 10 three-hour general meetings and an equally small number of committee meetings each semester couldn't even make it to the most important session of the year...
...sorry that our plans have been the subject of criticism in your pages. The stories have been mostly one-sided and distort the purpose and nature of the events. The committee is always open to good ideas and to offers of practical assistance...
...Mexican government responded sharply. "The comments," said the Foreign Ministry, "distort, with disinformation, what is happening in Mexico." The governor of Sonora, accused at the hearing of being an opium farmer, talked of suing both Helms and the head of the Customs Service...
...called the military an "independent force" which is protected under a veil of patriotism. It is primarily an American misconception that the military is subject to the democratic process which accounts for it becoming so powerful that it could distort the international situation, Galbraith said...
...confident that the videotaping process doesn't distort classroom situations that would make the ensuing observations invalid," Boehrer says. "After a few minutes, TFs [teaching fellows] lose track of the fact of being taped...