Word: misguidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But, in the hours that followed, the mission proved short-sighted, even misguided. Israel should not be blamed for the apparent murder of U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins by terrorists, even though the execution was in retaliation for Obeid's abduction. There is no question about that. The question...
Arguing that the basic proposal was still intact, Shamir called Labor's impending withdrawal "misguided." Labor leader Shimon Peres countered that "there is no reason to remain in the government," but invited Shamir to "retract" the appended conditions, which include barring East Jerusalem's 140,000 Palestinian residents from participating...
The comments by Campanis, who was fired a few days later, were disturbing in themselves (he went on to say the Blacks couldn't be good swimmers because they were not "bouyant"), but the misguided beliefs and attitudes they reflect are not rare in the world of sports.
Last week a somewhat different version of the speech appeared in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. There was no reference to Poland, but Deng said that "some comrades don't understand the situation" in China, in that the revolt was not merely the work of "misguided" people but...
"[Curtis Bok] would not lightly permit lawyers to miss the law or to be misguided," says I. Raymond Kremer, who as a lawyer in the 1950s argued cases before Judge Bok.