Word: misleader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Government's plan at first hand, "that this program is working remarkably well and that it is a good thing for Britain. I can see now that most of the critics of our proposal in the United States have, whether deliberately or through ignorance, tried to mislead the American people on the facts about the British program...
...Ministry of Education had occupied the palace consistory "with the assistance of the security police," had confiscated the central treasury of the Prague diocese and other diocesan property. The Communists were using Beran's official stationery and seal for communications in the archbishop's name designed to mislead the faithful...
Rivera now vows that he was never a Trotskyite, and that he sheltered Stalin's enemy merely out of kindness, "despite his political errors." Rivera's own bitterly anti-Stalin writings, he explains solemnly, were "just a trick to mislead the stockholders of Bethlehem Steel." But the Reds have reason to know that there is always one more trick in Rivera's trunk. When he applied for readmission to the party, in 1946, their response was a horrified no. "So I have no right," he says with elephantine humility, "to call myself a Communist...
Modern newspaper practises of trying to get everything into the first sentence and of listing fasts without attempting to explain their significance diminish the informativeness of newspapers and often mislead the reader, Lyons asserted...
...curious to find some of this sort of putty in the middle of a university. Your education may confuse you, it may mislead you, it may shake up your ideas and turn them upside down, but one thing it wouldn't be expected to do is leave you blank and malleable...