Word: discomfited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though, Hitler was fully prepared to back up his policies by force, even if only obliquely or by proxy. When General Francisco Franco launched a military revolt against the Republican government of Spain in 1936, Hitler saw a chance not only to acquire a new ally but also to discomfit the neighboring French. He sent bombers, tanks and "volunteers." Goring used Spain as a training ground for "my young Luftwaffe." Its most notorious action, one that other nations would soon experience, was the aerial destruction of the Basque town of Guernica...
...earned the nickname "Ivan the Terrible" talked long and hard to investigators about the stock trades he had made using insider knowledge. He also reportedly allowed regulators to eavesdrop on and tape his telephone conversations as he conducted his business dealings. Last week Boesky's singing began to discomfit some of the biggest names in the corporate-takeover business. Said Pierre Rinfret, head of a Wall Street investment and consulting firm: "This...
...brave theme for a movie to take up these days, especially for one that might like to be mistaken for a summer comedy. Nothing in Common never settles into a self-confident stride, but it does dislocate, discomfit. You might remember it after a lot of less edgy films have been forgotten...
...nothing left to do were we to go the whole hog at once; the Soviets might as well go into Poland. Britain, and the other members of the alliance, wanted desperately to follow the American lead on Poland in a policy that would protect the Polish people and discomfit the Soviets and the regime in Warsaw. But it was too much to ask that they punish their own economies and their own interests in support of policies that would inflict no noticeable wound on Moscow...
Partly to discomfit the victorious Republicans, the House Democratic leader ship forced a separate vote on foreign aid, which has been funded for the past three years by continuing legislation designed to avert a showdown on the issue. Reagan had to line up support from a majority of Republicans, who generally vote overwhelmingly against foreign aid, to get the bill passed...