Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME adds nothing but confusion to a Presidential metaphor when, in commenting on F.D.R.'s characterization of U.S. Martinique victory as a "base on balls," it adds: "But many a pop bottle was still coming Pitcher Roosevelt's way. . . ."
"In order to avoid current confusion," Cordell Hull hoped politely that Czar Byrnes would issue these instructions to all agencies concerned "at the earliest possible moment."
Through the confusion strode troubled Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, urging the crowds to go home, trying to justify the hope of decent Americans that the race problem need not be thrashed out in wartime violence. Said he, irascible but patient, with his own peculiar dignity:
First important step in this drive was the capture of Barrafranca, a town of stone houses at the end of a narrow valley, guarded on either side by three rugged hills and many smaller ones. The veteran 1st Division's 26th Infantry Regiment was assigned to take these hills...
The red balls and the officers' shouts tore at the minds and feet of the men. They ran toward the trees, the sand humps, anything beyond the water which offered cover. Once there, they realized that in most places the enemy fire had been rather light. A soldier said...