Word: misleader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funeral was one of the most largely attended we had ever conducted. But the turn-out did not mislead me. The dramatic manner of the youngsters' going and the way the press played it up brought out a horde of morbid curiosity-seekers none of whom knew either Alice or Eric by sight in life...
...wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between what Arnold called Hebraism-the urge of conscience to follow the best moral light man has-and Hellenism-the spirit of inquiry that constantly questions conscience to be sure that it does not mislead, that the best light is not superstitious darkness. He foresaw that the 19th century's grim but necessary preoccupation with industrial growth would pass away, and a time would come "when man has made himself perfectly comfortable and has ... to determine what to do with himself." To provide a standard for that...
...Washington hotel, by his personal physician, Dr. Gertrud Weiss-who is also his wife. With the same realism that he showed when his prospects were poorest, Dr. Szilard now says: "I have not been in a hospital since I left Memorial. But I don't want to mislead people into thinking I am cured, because I do not know if I am. There is no telling how long I will be well...
...reluctant to have Powers appear on Capitol Hill for fear that he might spill some secret or mislead the Congressmen by being unable to answer their questions fully. Powers has been told that, as a free citizen, he can refuse to testify before the committee or meet reporters-but he will probably follow the advice of the Administration, which has already promised that he will get a chance to appear in public...
...notably the need for approval by the decennial Lambeth Conference. But, said Van Dusen, the Lambeth Conference has specifically approved the plan on which the Blake proposal was modeled-the Scheme of Church Union in Ceylon. "Such statements can spring only from lamentable ignorance or from an intention to mislead," scolded Van Dusen. "More than that; they presuppose a view of apostolic succession which large numbers of Episcopal bishops and clergy do not hold." Thus the real issue is whether, in deference to a militant minority, "the great body of that church is still ready to surrender its desire...