Word: misleading
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...inflation, hunger, humiliation, the Nazis. Oskar Graf thought more & more of his mother. He identified her with the masses, "the blameless German people . . . already behind the plow, in the workshops, factories, and offices, working as hard as ever, without particularly concerning themselves about the forces that were waiting to mislead and deceive them anew." At 70 his widowed mother was still wrapping her sore legs in herbs, tending her chickens, praying for her fallen-away...
...confronted the Senate sub committee that was to approve his Department of Justice appointment, his chief questioner was Borah. Arnold said he believed in the anti-trust laws. Said Borah, closing The Folklore of Capitalism: "I've been sadly misled by your book." In office, Arnold continued to mislead...
...ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, etc., 1,000 of the city's 11,800 turned out to make the biggest political rally in Montana's history. ("That is the greatest financial error in history! . . . Who can that group of advisers be who would so mislead a President...
...Bonnet-Ribbentrop conversations were not made public at the time, but last week the Reich not only accused Foreign Minister Bonnet of double-crossing Germany but intimated that he had been quite willing to mislead his own Parliament...
...Russians will obviously cut down on the supplies they have promised to send the Nazis. Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter, observed in cold approval of Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power to refrain from adjusting its neighborly relations." The whole Nazi press echoed the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung's charge: "It was Britain who first made the Baltic countries, especially Finland, strategically interesting to Russia by introducing foreign tensions. . . . Never trust the British-when things...