Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it is so easy for you to obtain the true facts about the Chrysler strike in Detroit [TIME, June 5], it seems to me that you deliberately mislead your readers when you say "Basis of the dispute: whether A.F. of L. or C.I.O. truckmen should deliver soda pop to the plants. Unioneer Thomas promptly ousted 15 officers of a U.A.W. local for participating in the 'soda...
Franklin Roosevelt lay abed, battling the grippe. But the new Jap puppet Government in the Philippines (TIME, Oct. 25) raised his temperature higher than the grippe's mild fever. Said he: "A hypocritical appeal for American sympathy. . . . Fraud and deceit . . . designed to confuse and mislead the Filipino people...
...Sorry to mislead you girls on the bowties for last Saturday, but you gotta start a column with something! It was a nice party, anyhoo, thanks to hundreds of beautiful girls, including our chief hostess, Mrs. Giard, who's mad at me for reading the funnies while dancing... The only unpopular guy there was somebody named Paul Jones who seemed to lose friends and alienate people after 2300 and two drinks with the same woman. At least Ruby Newman had a helluva good time...
...somewhat platitudinous manner (his favorite clichés are "let's walk around that idea" and "facts-not opinions") is apt to mislead strangers about the kind of businessman 54-year-old Donald Davis really is. No Horatio Alger up-from-nothing boy, he studied engineering at Michigan with the cold-blooded notion that he would avoid settling on any one career until he was 35. Living up to his credo, he shifted from senior engineer for a wheel company to cost accounting for a trust company to factory manager for an auto-accessory company which was making...
...Before German tank columns attempted a breakthrough, artillery frequently laid down a barrage, lasting as much as an hour, to mislead the Russians about the direction of the planned attack. Red-bannered Nazi tanks were sent into the Soviet lines on superscouting expeditions...