Word: discomfitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competition between the networks too brutal to drop them. Walter Cronkite thinks they may bring about a "general revulsion" against war, which may be too much to expect, since they by no means tell the whole story of Viet Nam. But even in their fragmentary form, they tend to discomfit the stay-at-homes...
...told his supporters to "greet De Gaulle as you would greet me." That produced a mob scene and a rowdy attempt to link De Gaulle with Perón, presenting both as champions of the third force, independent of either East or West. The obvious purpose was to discomfit the regime of President Arturo Illia, which has cast its lot with...
...ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. This year's liveliest comic novel dissects the endless ploys of a rich and artful British self-seeker to discomfit the U.S. colonials and get the girl...