Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By midmorning of the following day the Nationalists were in full retreat, plunging northward through Shanghai's jammed and clamorous heart. Some outfits marched through almost in parade formation; others, caked with mud from the battlefields, streaked through the city in terror and confusion, taking with them everything they...
Two years ago David Lilienthal had won the respect of the nation with a warm and firm defense of his liberal credo. Last week, again under fire and retreating in confusion, he lost some of that respect.
Meanwhile, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders continued to rule the city with a trembling iron hand. Firing squads continued public executions of fifth columnists, black marketeers and other culprits. On outlying roads, hundreds of laborers sweated to throw up machine-gun emplacements and earthworks. In the confusion, however, many of...
With Josiah Holbrook's example in mind, 28 well-known U.S. men & women had started a new organization called the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools. Some of the problems with which the commission will concern itself, and try to concern others, are overcrowded classrooms, the shortage of...
Goldsmith was the Lowell offense. In the first inning he journeyed around the bases using only his own guile and his opponents' confusion.