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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This letter, by confirming Arab claims that Roosevelt had promised to let them in on any new deal for Palestine, threw pro-Zionists on Capitol Hill and elsewhere into confusion. The letter from Ibn Saud, published at the same time, made them hopping mad.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Battle of Jericho | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Variation on a Theme. To avoid confusion in identity, many a newborn Pubniconian gets a name of his own with his father's first name tacked on. Example: Allan, son of Brad d'Entremont, is called Allan-a-Brad. Even so, confusions are numerous. Postmistress Annie d'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Acadian Utopia | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Why did Patton order such a desperate undertaking? One of the prisoners at Hammelburg was Patton's son-in-law, Lieut. Colonel John K. Waters, who was badly wounded in the fracas. Patton, denying that he even knew Waters was there when he launched the operation, displayed his personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Patton Legend: More | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

In Washington, where the Administration was frantically trying to catch up with the facts of peacetime life, worried Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach reflected the Government's confusion. To labor and management representatives from the strike-ridden oil industry he said: "The Government, representing 30,000,000 people, and particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Begging & Pleading | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

¶ Some users become habituals by depending on the drug to put them to sleep instead of reforming their unhealthy habits. They, and unstable people who deliberately take too much, occasionally develop chronic poisoning, resulting in drowsiness, bad memory, depression, confusion, stomach trouble, etc.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bolts & Jolts | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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