Word: puzzlements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the reason, the actor's outburst that Churchill was a despicable coward and an overriding dictator, in fact, "a medieval bandit king," met with more puzzlement than outrage in England. Said Churchill's grandson Winston: "When I had lunch with Burton recently, he almost thought he was Churchill." As for Burton, he issued a rambling apology, if not a retraction...
...developed that negative anyway, and it proved another picture entirely. Rhoda turned out to be a close relative of Tevye, a fiddler on the rueful whose face could shine with puzzlement as well as wisdom while she searched for career, meaning, laughs, irony and that sine qua non of the not-quite-liberated Msfit, a husband...
...these college students eddy around you like so many ants in a hill. You are standing in front of the cabinet for Soc Sci 15 and casually pick up a text on behavioral psychology. Graphs of response rates and reinforcements and contingencies stare out at you, but your puzzlement is allayed by the almost tangible presence of laboratory walls enveloping you. A symphonic blend of pigeon cooing fills your ears as you walk to put pellets of feed in place for a new experiment. The smell is a bit overpowering, but this anticipation of finding the missing link to your...
...Republicans in support of one article of impeachment, seven in support of another, the introduction of a third by a senior Republican. Now a new course had to be found among the President's rapidly dwindling options. Confessed one adviser: "It's a grinding experience. There is puzzlement about how to take hold of the problem...
...Lake 30 Years Later" [June 10] evoked many feelings that I thought I had worked through over the years. The years spent at our "relocation center" at Rohwer, Ark., are the lost experience of childhood, since I was six months old at the time of internment. But later the puzzlement of why one nationality was so treated haunted me throughout the postwar years. At first I thought that it was a Japanese shame since my parents did not talk about the internment (and one does not speak of that of which one is ashamed). Then gradually I came to realize...