Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus chunky, shaggy-headed Harry Carothers Wiess, president of Humble Oil & Refining Co., nutshelled the current confusion over oil. Just as neatly, oil-wise Mr. Wiess, whose company (a Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey subsidiary) is one of the U.S.'s biggest oil producers, last week set forth...
Some non-Harvard men were heard mumbling the other day to the effect that Harvard Union was in reality the Hasty Pudding Club. Another case of confusion between true and relative (bearings) no doubt.
. . . The worker in war industries has been under great production pressure for almost two years, and he is getting a bit tired, both physically and mentally. This fatigue is not entirely from physical effort; a greater part of it is mental. The reasons are simple: he is damn weary of...
The Long Afternoon. Throughout the long, hot afternoon the usual fog of war settled around us and everything was confusion. The usual battlefield rumors flew up & down the lines in chaotic profusion.
In Confusion. The Wehrmacht had used the interim since Benito Mussolini's passing to entrench itself in strategic Northern Italy. If the Allies had been ready to invade at that time, Italy might well have fallen like a ripe plum. Now they would face at least organized German resistance...