Word: disconcerted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forbid the batsman to step out of the batter's box in order to disconcert the pitcher...
...improvement of technique, and the development of strategy have made possible more definite and accurate plays. Complicated formations, intended to deceive opponents and draw their men away from their proper places and otherwise disconcert them, are now possible...
Nothing could be more vague and haphazard than the arrangements for announcing the results of the general examinations. Perhaps the system is quite perfect, and our vague knowledge of it is due to a conscious effort of the reigning powers to disconcert the student forces by a sort of "secret practice" strategy. Still, such strategy can scarcely be appreciated by men who are anxious to proceed in planning for graduation and the work to follow...
When The London Times states a fact, a fact it is, with very few exceptions. Should The Times ever prove irresponsible, it would, after years of utmost solicitude, utterly disconcert the digestion of a vast Commonwealth. Likewise the editor of The Times. His position is well nigh that of a state official. His most private statement, his most guarded whisper, will, if overheard, be received with attention, credence, close scrutiny. Editors of The Times are therefore tight-lipped gentlemen, seldom heard from outside their own columns. But after they relinquish their duties...
...then, however, with her verses, and her prize-winning poem, Renascence, was heralded by the critics as an extraordinary performance for one so young. From college she migrated to Greenwich Village. The contrast between Washington Square and her home town of Rockland, Me., was great; but it did not disconcert her. She soon became a legend. Her poetry was widely read, her charms widely heralded. She was a poet of renown and even more brilliant as a personality. Tiring soon, however, of the Bohemian life of the Village she went to Europe with her mother. There she stayed...