Word: baffler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light of such performance, most of it stemming from actions and positions of months ago, the seemingly spontaneous New Eisenhower line, especially in the U.S. press, was a journalistic baffler, though it did make for some bright writing and the appearance of punditic discovery. "One evidence of the change," wrote the Washington Evening Star's Garnett Horner from Gettysburg, "is the very fact that he held a news conference here at all yesterday." The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston played a variation on the New Ike theme: "What appeared was not really...