Word: confounder
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...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...
...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...