Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last to Go. Firing as fast as she could load, the Houston bored in, throwing salvos into an enemy which attacked from all sides. In the confusion she lost sight of the Perth, picked her up again in the glare of star shells just before the Australian went down. The...
Return to Hell. But the gaitered ghost cannot argue all day. "I have to be back next Friday to read a paper. We have a little Theological Society down there. Oh yes! There is plenty of intellectual life. Not of a very high quality, perhaps. One notices a certain lack...
¶ An astonishing confusion of orders and messages, and differences of opinion at the top which had hamstrung action. (Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, was ready to appease Japan with a $2 billion loan and "most favored nation" status.)
Hogarth had an explanation of his own. In one of the neatest esthetic credos in English, he described what he was trying for: "variety without confusion, simplicity without nakedness, richness without tawdriness, distinctness without hardness, quantity without excess."
The Kettle cattle kept eating up Author MacDonald's garden. One day Bob steamed down to protest. "The dignity and force of his entrance were somewhat impaired by the fact that as he came abreast of the back porch he found himself face to face with Mrs. Kettle, who...