Word: confounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although some would deny that coexistence is writ is the stars, it will shortly become dogms in the Soviet Constitution. Similarly, to confound disbelievers in the law of progress, American auto makers have decided to install safety belts in their '62 models. A world full of earnest men coexisting dogmatically and all wearing safety belts is perhaps a little too richly utopian for a generation taught to look at life gloomily--as if from the inside of someone's Better Mousetrap. Yet such a sunny world is emerging, and science has recently made a comforting discovery which ought to dispel...
...novelist and critic, who has delusions of heroism even as his unit is put to rout by the Germans. Running away, he still sees himself stemming the retreat, and when he reaches England in a small boat, he has no trouble seeing himself as an intelligence man who can confound the enemy. His boss, a psychiatrist in civilian life, gives him his chance...
...moderate, well-to-do suburbanite," a type on the increase in Ohio, could confound a lot of polsters, Mansell predicted. "The Republicans have had a hard time pinning him down, and the Democrats won't get to first base...
Veteran Bob Friend (17-12), who relies on breaking pitches. In addition, the Pirates have Southpaws Harvey Haddix (11-10) and Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell (13-8) to confound the predominantly lefthanded Yankees' hitting power. Out in the bullpen is one of baseball's top relief men: ElRoy Face (10-8), who throws a dipping forkball that induces rally-killing grounders. For the Yankees, fading Whitey Ford (12-9) still looks able to pitch two big games with know-how and his sharp curve, and Art Ditmar (15-9) has developed into a steady winner with his slider...
...should be, or it has been thrust too far into the foreground of our educational practices. The Innocent will bless the men who are willing and able to teach in a lower level natural sciences course, or do a good job with an important introductory "survey," but confound the men who drone through the petrified information on their dog-eared three-by-five cards year after year, or recite from their glittering galley-proofs until the Dean has to ask them to desist...