Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baptists and other evangelical sects, says Izvestia, "mislead people with high-flown words, and try to divert them from industrious life, from the enlightened happenings of our great era. They try to disrupt Soviet morality...
...such remarks are unacceptable since stimulation of thought does not require distortion of the truth," said the National Guard Association in a resolution passed by roaring voice vote. "The National Guard is always receptive to honest, constructive criticism and is opposed to petty, unfounded, destructive criticism tending to mislead the American public." Key clause in the resolution: a request that the Air Force investigate LeMay's qualifications to hold general rank. While that was plainly preposterous, the fact remained that Curt LeMay, distinguished air officer, had made in the National Guard Association a powerful enemy that would certainly...
...Haddon Heights, N.J. boy died of sodium-nitrite poisoning (TIME, April 6), had a sequel last week. Daniel DiOrio, 50, president of Philadelphia's Universal Seafood Co., offered no defense when charged in U.S. District Court with having used the sodium nitrite on fish with intent to mislead and defraud. Judge Thomas C. Egan sentenced him to a month in prison, with three years on probation, fined him $2,500. Said the judge: "This caused the unfortunate and almost vicious death of a three-year-old boy and rendered his family seriously ill. The public must be protected...
...letters wait the "vanity presses," which print almost anything-at fees from the authors ranging between about $900 and $6,000. While there is nothing illegal in paying for the pleasure of seeing one's words in print, the Federal Trade Commission objects to vanity publishers who mislead clients into thinking that they may land on the bestseller lists, has obtained consent orders against five firms in two years. Currently, FTC is launching a series of "consumer alerts" to put "naive" authors on guard...
...months ago Schindler listed a few of his unanswered questions for the Toronto Telegram. Why did Harold Christie wait several hours after he found the body before reporting it? When the Duke of Windsor, Governor of the islands in 1943, summoned a Miami police expert, why did he mislead him into bringing the wrong equipment by describing Sir Harry's death as suicide? Who told Sir Harry's watchman he could have the night off? Who washed the bloody handprints from around the window in Sir Harry's bedroom? Why was the pistol removed from Sir Harry...