Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not until the third period were the invading Indians able to score; but then after two minutes and 40 seconds the powerful Big Green attack penetrated the Harvard backs and in a maze of confusion before the goal right inside Dick "Dizzy" Deane poured one past goalie Jack Penson.
This nine-way confusion was worse confounded when all nine agencies turned up in OPM's priorities division, each demanding copper, zinc, iron and steel. Certifier Palmer and Allocator Carmody also yelled contradictory advice in OPM's ear. Month ago, Palmer once more got the Presidential nod, was...
At 4:30 the market place was full and peasants were still coming in, when the church bells rang the alarm for approaching airplanes. The towns-people who crowded the narrow streets knew the alarm meant that something horrible would follow, but many of them had never seen an airplane...
In pessimistic moments, Siepmann is convinced that the misuse of radio contributes mightily to driving the public toward fascism. Two of the most terrifying phrases in all human language, he thinks, are Hitler's avowed objectives, for which radio is a chief tool: "psychological decomposition of the masses" and...
> In Occupied France, especially Brittany, Catholics are taking a strong stand against the conquerors. The Bishop of Quimper's sermons have denounced the Nazis steadily since the fall of France. In former Alsace-Lorraine, the Bishop of Strasbourg and Bishop of Metz have been forcibly retired for noncollaboration. In...