Word: befogging
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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...
...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...
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...
...this is highly important; for the literal interpretation of these same texts did much to befog our minds and emasculate our policy in the years between the wars when our main fault was that we tried Christianity too hard; and there is grave danger that we may do it again...
...practical success or failure show it to have been merely a patriotic but unworkable gesture, and a hasty move to keep apace of the band-wagon of national enthusiasm, it should be rejected. The confusion amid which compulsory athletics is being whipped into shape must not be allowed to befog a later fair appraisal...