Word: distortive
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Negro leaders sometimes argue passionately that arrest statistics wildly distort the comparative incidence of crime among Negroes and whites because cops are more likely to arrest Negroes for petty crimes or on mere suspicion. Protests Executive Editor Charles Wartman of Detroit's Michigan Chronicle, a Negro weekly: "The number of Negroes booked is at least partially indicative of subconscious if not conscious racial persecution on the part of police officers...
Since he left few tangible achievements, there is little solid for biographers to fall back on. Those who knew him have called him "a Johnson who cried for a Boswell." Yet the anecdotes which do exist tend to distort the man, illuminating in thin shafts of light one side of his personality, leaving the rest in gloom...
...intelligent bigot is no uncommon phenomenon in American politics. While we have rabble rousers, we also have educated, sometimes almost cultured men whose prejudices unbalance them, and distort their outlook. Father Feeney is one of these, and David Wang, another...
Erhard also succeeded in enshrining in the new treaty creating the six-nation Common European Market five stiff rules banning all agreements to prevent, restrict, or distort competition within the Common Market. Like Britain's Chancellor Harold Macmillan, he is a devoted believer in free trade among all nations. This does not make him an enthusiast for the Common Market. He fears it may become "an island of protectionism in Europe" because of pressure from the weaker economic members, especially France. "Why should I want to throw out controls and to abolish tariffs on a national level only...
...trip was the first U.S. presidential helicopter flight. Actually, Eisenhower is no whirlybird newcomer; as NATO commander (1951-52) he racked up many copter hours inspecting troops and installations in Western Europe. * Asked the Boston Globe's Herbert Kenny: "Will Ike find rapport / at Newport? / Will his temper distort / at Newport? / Would the weather dare thwart / his transport of sport / the day they escort / Ike to the seaport of Newport...