Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What threw the conservative organization into confusion was an article yesterday in an intown newspaper which grouped the Club's action to establish "living quarters" for women under the same heading of peculiar phenomena as the snow-thunder storm which heralded the coming of spring Wednesday night.
Certainly the week's activities had all the fog and confusion of a great military defeat. Important missions wound up in blind alleys or off in an entirely different direction. Important people were reported in one place, turned up in another. Amateur diplomats pinch-hit for professionals. Forgotten veterans...
The scene in the House was an odd mixture of cowardice, confusion, misunderstanding. To beat around the bush of last autumn's Neutrality Act, the loan was restricted to non-military supplies. Michigan's nervous Representative John Dingell shouted: "To hell with Stalin and to hell with Hitler...
Meanwhile Per Albin Hansson's letters kept pouring in. They put to confusion those who believed Swedish opinion was overwhelmingly for intervention. Most of them praised the Premier's neutrality. But those which did not were in such unpretty language that police immediately stationed two detectives and police...
A realistic piece, The Battle of Trenton consisted of a collection of little movements, each depicting a stage in the battle. One of them was built around the tune Yankee Doodle. Each had a subtitle: Attack-Cannons-Bomb. Defeat of the Hessians - General Confusion -Articles of Capitulation Signed-Grief of...