Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stood by, KPU hecklers shouted "Dume" (pronounced du-may and meaning "bull"), the party's slogan, and KANU backers retaliated. Turning on Odinga, Kenyatta shouted: "KPU is only engaged in dirty divisive words. Odinga is my friend, but he has been misled and he in turn continues to mislead the people of this area." Then he warned Odinga and his KPU followers: "We are going to crush you into flour. Anybody who toys with our progress will be crushed like locusts. Do not say later that I did not warn you publicly...
Judge Smith found that the words Kikuga and Kikugis seem to mean nothing in any African language. Ruling that the name would mislead the petitioner's future students, the judge said that other black Americans are teaching African culture "without resort to such subterfuge as changing their patronymics." Besides, he went on, Middleton is "a fine American name." Despite the decision, the future teacher is determined to get court approval for becoming Kikuga Nairobi Kikugis. He hopes to find a more receptive judge than Irving Smith-whose immigrant forebears' name was changed when they came from Poland...
...article, in mentioning deferments possibly available to graduating seniors, may mislead some about the ease with which those deferments are obtained. There are no deferments for graduate study in science in schools of arts and sciences, or for any other discipline in those schools. While the number of men going into teaching has risen to 138, deferments for these positions are not in fact automatic. Further, while the number of men taking jobs on graduation has also risen, probably only a very small proportion of these are being deferred for so doing. The policy on occupational deferments varies from board...
...nothing to do with these attacks on the people," the statement continues. "They are the work of provocateurs and police agents and those they mislead. Their aim is to discredit and destroy the student movement, and to discourage people from fighting the ways the system hurts them...
...separate, and to my mind less important, issue of whether or not I did or did not eventually get into that meeting. Eventually, I was able to get inside of the room of the meeting. Since I was not speaking to this point, I had no intention to mislead people about this point...