Word: puzzlement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, Britons have been singularly unmoved by Sir Anthony's outburst. They can see nothing so dramatic and decisive as a new Battle of Britain-only a new declaration of siege. They are enjoying summer holidays, TV sets and a respite from shortages. And plain Britons, listening in puzzlement to Eden's suddenly urgent cries, may search the acts of his government in vain for signs of a bold lead in preparing for battle...
...past decade entire nations have come to know the puzzlement and irritation that Nehru's sister Krishna described in a Ladies' Home Journal article last year. Nonetheless, in much of the world, anything that Nehru has to say is listened to with respect and attention. This is partly because Jawaharlal Nehru, whatever his faults, is an impressive man and can be a charming one, but it is primarily because he speaks in the name of an otherwise largely silent segment of mankind-one-seventh of the human race...
...climax on a pyramid of harmonies, brass on winds on strings, in orchestration as solid as Tchaikovsky's. The first movement, indeed, was a rejuvenated Piston; in the other two, however, he reached his high points of lyricism without seeming to aim for them, leaving a feeling of puzzlement...
...painting in America is hell-bent for outer space. It has rocketed right out of the realms of common sense and common experience. That does not necessarily make it bad. But it does leave the vast bulk of onlookers earthbound, with mouths agape and eyes reflecting a mixture of puzzlement, vexation, contempt. A cursory study of advance-guard painting gives rise to the conclusion that it consists, like the Mock Turtle's arithmetic, of "Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision." It is wild, woolly, willful. But nothing has only one side, and negatives cannot sum up America's newest...
Then they began dozens of questions about mass-production methods, approvingly appraised mechanized earthmovers. New to them, and thunderously thumped, were steel doors and gypsum-board walls to substitute for plaster, as well as cost-cutting low ceilings, which they carefully measured. They showed puzzlement when a builder explained the usefulness of a low room divider between a living room and dining area. Placed on the divider, said the builder, a swiveling TV set permits children to view while eating. "It's been one of the biggest selling points of this house," he said. The Russians burst into laughter...