Word: confounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noisy blasts against Postmaster General Summerfield may have turned the House Appropriations Subcommittee "purple," as you say [April 15], but until the hue of Congress becomes more purposeful than regal, the statistical peashooters will continue to confound the postal problems. Let Congress discover the basic causes of the ever-increasing postal deficit; updating the rules would be the first step necessary to reduce or eliminate the postage avoidance practices which shrink postal revenue...
...groups in attendance came with plays calculated to confuse or confound. Vassar contributed an excellent production of Strindberg's Miss Julie, which constituted the most consistently satisfactory theatrical experience of the whole weekend. The Yale Dramatic Association, which acted as the sponsor for the festival, opened the proceedings with some scenes from their recent production of Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge. Considering the fact that Yale was working on its home ground, the technical side of the presentation left something to be desired. It was well acted, but suffered from stiff direction and poor lighting...
...striking power of the Navy. Others may pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have it. It is mine to shape and polish, inspire or confound, instruct or confuse, ready or sheathe, and employ wisely or foolishly...
...great believer in private conversations and searcher for compromises, he used such phrases as "meeting the Russians halfway," and assiduously courted the Indians as a vehicle for compromise. But he was also U.N.'s most spirited heckler of the Russians, made up fictitious Russian proverbs to confound Vishinsky at his own game ("The more moo, the less milk"), once commented on a repetitious Vishinsky tirade: "Dig that broken record." He entered the Cabinet for the first time as Defense Minister when Eden took over as Prime Minister, was there only eight months before becoming Foreign Secretary...
...Idella now attend five or six classes a week at the New School and New York University in such courses as "American Political Parties" and "Psychology of Religion." He finds that being a night-school student at N.Y.U. gives him a formidable fund of information with which to confound his friends, many of whom are experts in their own lines...