Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The plot is hackneyed and almost traditional: Poor boy wants to see Mother living more comfortably, sinks into life of crime to achieve his end. There is a certain degree of force in Grant's portrayed of Ernle Mott if you region him a figure symbolic of all the underprivileged...
Columnist David Lawrence, who wanted a Dewey victory, got to thinking last week what it would have brought. People would be saying, he decided, that as a result of the Administration's defeat, the following things have happened: the war has slowed down and casualties have gone up sharply...
At first everything was wild confusion. Germans suddenly appeared over the crest of hills and shot up towns. They overran rear-area supply points, pounced upon U.S. artillerymen before they could get to their guns. Germans surrounded a field of artillery-spotting planes, whose pilots were fast asleep. U.S. divisional...
In the bitter confusion of the German breakthrough the Army clamped down a censorship thicker than the pea-soup fog that shrouded the great German counterattack. Communiqués were as much as 48 hours behind the event. When they came they were meager and vague. Correspondents blew up.
"It may be noted here that apart from all the other hardships endured by women in this war the small humiliations of shopping have been the most difficult to bear. N. Gubbins, Esq. can remember a day when his life partner smiled up into the face of a butcher and...