Word: confounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confound their politics...
...Francisco, Umpire Hap O'Connor, who had umpired many baseball games in Japan, urged that baseball be continued to confound the Japs. Said he: "The Japs so envy us for our baseball prowess . . . that to call it off during wartime would be like a tonic to them. I think they would construe it to mean we were becoming panicky...
...snapped back to him. Army operates in the old Dartmouth style of a single wingback, and in formation right this places Mazur at the tailback spot. Here he is suited to carry on the running pass plays with which Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth under Blaik's tutelage used to confound the Crimson secondary...
...other in bewildering confusion. Of course, by the end of the picture, the whole plot is very simple,--to William Powell. But script-writers, playing their merry game of hide-and-seek-the-murderer with the audience, seem to have overstepped the bounds of sportsmanship and produce plots to confound even the mightiest mental power-house...