Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hope and Cynicism. Last week the sign on the door of the Commission offices read: "Allied Commission." A second sign still read: "Allied Control Commission." Behind the door, no changes. Result: among Italians, mounting hopes, then mounting cynicism; among Allied officials, bewilderment and confusion.
The chief U.S. expert on migratory birds, Frederick C. Lincoln of the Fish and Wildlife Service, doubts such stories; he admits that birds are sometimes forced down by snowstorms, but thinks confusion and fright have as much to do with it as anything. Nonetheless, airmen's reports have greatly...
Veteran correspondents aboard the Dewey train had never seen such a campaign. Those who had been on the fabled Willkie "crusade" of 1940 found this one very different. Four years ago they had clambered out from morning to night to hear the Willkie back-platform utterances, had ridden with the...
This week, the Brookings Institution, famed for its economic studies, put out its own carefully considered estimate of postwar U.S. income, in an attempt to clear up the confusion. Net result was to add to the confusion, by stirring up a first-class row among economists. For one thing, the...
As Lessner tells it, defeated Germany's main weapon was confusion. Overnight the Wehrmacht was dissolved ; not a single officer remained to offer Germany's "unconditional surrender." But veterans popped up again in strange places, such as the Brandenburg Canoe Club and the Association of Prussian Stamp Collectors...