Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Pressure groups are on the march.. . . The gold dust thrown in all our eyes, by political abracadabra, only confuses, with gain to no one except temporary power to the economic magicians. We must mix brains with our brawn if we would keep our world leadership. We must steady ourselves...
To recalcitrant generals, whether of diehard Kuomintang or diehard Communist persuasion, he talked with the firmness of a Dutch uncle and the adroitness of a donkey driver who knows the value of both stick and carrot. One burly commander, who said that he could not control his troops, was trapped...
There was also some confusion about the gallery: some mistook it for Manhattan's "Museum of Non-Objective Painting," which Peggy's uncle, Solomon Guggenheim, supported. Peggy and Ernst were both unfaithful and both jealous, she says. The end came when Peggy saw Max's mistress "with...
Three hook-and-ladder trucks, the fire chief's car, a pumping truck, and an emergency wagon were employed to carry one hose (small size) to the scene of the disaster. Slumbering Puritans, Bellboys, and Bunnies awoke for a half-hour of enjoyable confusion. Nobody had any marshmallows.
Acolytes Molotov and Truman opened the ceremony with becoming simplicity. In Moscow the Soviet Foreign Minister said flatly that he had demanded the return of the Turkish provinces, Kars and Ardahan, back at the Potsdam meeting of the Big Three. At the White House Mr. Truman said he didn'...