Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Heroes. But there was still heat, smoke and fearful confusion upstairs. Firemen worked until they dropped in dark, furniture-cluttered labyrinths. Nameless heroes appeared. A tall, well-dressed man knocked on scores of doors, chatted coolly and politely, led the terrified to safety. A sailor roamed the smoking corridors...
"Whenever there is intense blushing," wrote Charles Darwin in 1872, "there will be some, and often great, confusion of mind."
. . . After reading countless blasts against Anglophobic Bertie McCormick, I discover, to my confusion, an item written in the same bilious, morning-after style of the Chicago Tribune. I refer to the account of Columnist Nat Gubbins' tirade [TIME, May 13] against:
World War II brought B-29 raids to Formosa, and liberation brought the scarcely more welcome visitation of Chinese bureaucracy. (Formosans use the adjective "Chinese" as a synonym for inefficiency and confusion.)
Governor of the board is William Hulme Lever, son of the founder and second Viscount Leverhulme, now 58. As his father did, he still owns the largest single block of stock in Unilever Ltd., enough to give him a working control of the company. Unlike his father, he has shown...