Word: confounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constitutional is not necessarily right and what is unconstitutional is not necessarily wrong in terms of policy, Frankfurter said. "No matter how often the Court disavows that it is not passing on policy when determining constitutionality, the emphasis on constitutionality and its fascination for the American public seriously confound problems of constitutionality with the merits of the policy," Frankfurter said...
...ladies known him better, the prince in his new career might not have seemed so surprising. Ever since he was a child, he has made it a habit to confound the imperial household. At four, he broke into the public press by publishing an original essay ("The horse is a very clever animal. You beat him with a whip, and he quickly jumps"). For years after that, he was known as the Prince of Nursery Tales...
...whole, Dr. Kuiper concluded, the meteorology of waterless Venus must be rather simple. There are no ocean basins to complicate the circulation of the dusty carbon-dioxide winds. The yellow dust merely drifts along; it does not condense unpredictably and fall as capricious rain to confound meteorologists...
...subject is a dramatic one because economics has been major news throughout 1954. As we have reported week after week, the economy of the U.S. adjusted to the "recession," moved successfully from the Korean war rate of spending to armed peace, continued to thrive and confound the "gloom peddlers" and to help support the defense structure of the entire free world. Even one of the new names for the cold war now has an economic ring: the era of "competitive coexistence" with Communism...
...Shaw, whose works seem almost contemporary, were born in the same year. Shaw proved more durable: he grew old enough to reach his second childhood, while Wilde never quite outgrew his first. Yet, like Shaw, Wilde resembled a fountain of social defiance. Both men were socialists, both loved to confound and educate their audiences with startling paradoxes, both were masters of clear, succinct prose. One of the many major differences between them was that Shaw believed style to be a byproduct of sincerity, while Wilde insisted that style alone could create sincerity. It was in Shaw's nature...