Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Oct. 31 article on heart disease was excellent, but apt to mislead a good many people in various ways. You make out that our hectic way of life is the cause of it. The reason for our high percentage of deaths from heart disease is that we are very long-living people. The older a person is when he dies, the more likely he is to die of heart disease. You make out that we Americans have the highest percentage of deaths from heart disease of any country in the world. The Australians claim to be the laziest...
...Communists. He also admitted turning the documents as well as certain Communist information back to Dides in order to convince the policeman that he was an honest double-dealer-but, Baranès explained, everything he gave to Dides was first doctored by the Reds to conceal or mislead...
...signed a statement which was read by Thailand's Prince Wan Waithaya-kon: "We believe that it is better to face the fact of our disagreement [with the Communists] than to raise false hopes and mislead the people of the world into believing that there is agreement when there is none." In the face of this united front, Molotov and Chou En-lai got their signals crossed. Chou, raging, had blamed the U.S. alone for the impending breakoff...
...argues in effect that since we cannot ask a guilty man to contribute evidence which will lead a judge to pronounce him guilty, a fortiori we cannot ask an innocent man to contribute evidence which will mislead a judge to pronounce him guilty. A man cannot be held to contribute to what he stands to suffer by. Both principles would seem to follow from the simple principle of moral respect, the same principle which makes it unallowable to ask a criminal to hang himself or order his own firing squad...
...after all, not Davies. who was at that time head of the Policy Planning Staff. I was responsible for its work and its recommendations . . . Do you not mislead your readers when you encourage them to disregard the clear hierarchy of governmental responsibility and to seek in the alleged "influence" of junior officials the explanation for whatever is found displeasing in the workings of public policy? Must all reverses be attributable to sinister intrigue? Is it not possible that most of them might be the result of normal factors in the operation of a governmental system?-of faultiness in even...