Word: puzzlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though change and expansion have brought "a different, more complicated sense of mission," Huntington says, the essential focus of the center is still research. Brown agrees "The issues have become more complex," he says. "and while that involves some puzzlement. It makes it very exciting...
...there was no great alarm in the capital when the President on March 11 signed a new National Security Decision Directive. It gave various department and agency heads the right to force lie-detector tests on employees suspected of passing classified information to reporters. The announcement was greeted with puzzlement, since many leaks come from these same officials when it suits their purpose. Last week, on closer scrutiny, the order took on a more ominous...
...stand on the Falkland Islands has enraged many nations that Washington would like to court. In Geneva this week, U.S. and Soviet negotiators will sit down to open an ultra-important round of new talks on reduction of strategic nuclear weapons. Moscow's leaders are already expressing heightened puzzlement as to what kind of American strategy they will face...
Four of us communal-living, celibate, nonsmoking, diet-conscious Franciscan Mars took TIME's life-expectancy quiz conjointly. It was a puzzlement. Friar No. 1, reasoning he lived with neither spouse nor friend, subtracted 1 point. Friar No. 2, claiming Friar No. 1 as his friend, added 5. Friar No. 3, a happy sort (add 1), was unhappy (subtract 2) that Friar No. 1 was friendless. Friar No. 4, to his consternation, had passed on last year...
...work or play, everybody emits wordless signals of infinite variety. Overt, like a warm smile. Spontaneous, like a raised eyebrow. Involuntary, like leaning away from a salesperson to resist a deal. Says Julius Fast in Body Language: "We rub our noses for puzzlement. We clasp our arms to isolate ourselves or to protect ourselves. We shrug our shoulders for indifference." Baseball pitchers often dust back a batter with a close ball that is not intended to hit but only to signal a warning claim of dominance. The twitchings of young children too long in adult company are merely involuntary signals...