Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides the classroom shortage, there was a teacher shortage in defense centers. In Washington, confusion was further confounded by a shortage of school janitors, many of whom had quit for defense jobs.
On the march their officers dinned into them, "the enemy is stronger." The mottoes of "the Greatest Army in Europe" became planquez-vous (hide) and sauve qui peut. In a fatal confusion of discipline with punishment, the officers tried to toughen them while they marched: 35, 40, 45 kilometers a...
The French marched to battle in retreat-like confusion. "A horse collapsed and could not rise again; a tank passed over him. The heavy caterpillar treads cut into his living flesh. Stray cows . . . bellowing with pain .. . ran amidst the tanks, trucks, and cannon. Everybody was looking for everybody else. . . . And...
First recent major Washington step toward simplifying alphabetical confusion came when the Nelson Rockefeller committee's title was cut down sharply. The Office for Coordination of Commercial & Cultural Relations Between the American Republics suddenly became the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs-OCCCRBAR into OCIAA.
Many a dollar-a-year man trying to make the best of things in Washington may feel that FORTUNE is ingenuous in implying that only his own lack of initiative prevents his taking control of the production effort and making it hum. Many may feel that FORTUNE failed to give...