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Word: befog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Intrigued with this bit of noblesse oblige, I inquired if he had rewarded her in the customary fashion with "thank you." "I don't recall that he did," my mother replied. Only sportsmen will understand my profound sense of relief for that answer. No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest." When one considers that he did so in the prepituitary era, it is doubly awesome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 8, 1966 | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...years ago by Warren Harding, a man with an eye for figures. He set up a Budget Bureau and named as its first director Chicago Banker Charles Gates Dawes, a frugal fellow who came to deplore "the dirty demagogues of both parties who get the report and besmear and befog it in the minds of the public." Dawes (who became Coolidge's Vice President) had ingenious ways of calling free-spending military officers onto the carpet. On one occasion, he summoned some of them to his office, vigorously swept his rug with two brooms, then demanded of the stunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: READING THE BUDGET FOR FUN & PROFIT | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

Offering Honors in General Studies without departmental recommendation is a real improvement, for the wild diversity of present criteria serves mainly to confuse undergraduates and befog the College's conception of the relation between Honors and departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plus Ca Change | 2/7/1961 | See Source »

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