Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paychecks & Pessimists. The Army refused to clear Voorhees' book largely because it objected to a chapter called "The Press," in which he accused newsmen of everything from sending dispatches that "mislead thoroughly" to doing a "disservice to the fighting Army." Voorhees charged that most correspondents were "extreme" pessimists who sowed "doubt and fear among Americans as to the skill and honesty of Army leaders." They seemed, he says, "indifferent to the consequences of their dispatches. They appeared to pretend they operated in a vacuum, above criticism, shorn of responsibility, answerable to no one or nothing save the signers...
Personal experience comes from years of a war duty which placed me often, in the fight against the totalitarians of those days, in close contact with the men who today lure, mislead and enslave--through petitions, manifests and "coups," in a calculated and skillful progressions--the millions of human beings who too easily forget that God created them as individuals, make me look with contempt upon that kind of propaganda...
Russia" which may dangerously mislead your readers...
...from England and the Dominions flocked to Canterbury Cathedral by train, bus and car for a special service. It was time, they felt, to rededicate themselves in a body against the "evil and godless forces of materialism and Communism," and to pray for delivery "from those false teachers who mislead and confuse the unwary." Lying abed within the Cathedral shadows, recovering from an illness was Dr. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson, who recently returned from the Communist-sponsored Warsaw "World Peace Congress," at which he was a headline speaker...
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