Word: puzzlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though they were playing ring-around-reality. We know that there are big problems that demand solutions, so how come the candidates don't?" So muses Claudia Wells, 29, a secretary in Charleston, S.C., and her puzzlement is hardly unique. As Campaign '80 moves into its final three weeks, the discussion of the U.S.'s pressing economic problems has become a fractious and cantankerous presidential non-debate that is informing no one and confusing voters everywhere...
...unknown. It is entirely possible that World War II might have been still bloodier had the U.S. not been drawn into the fight by the Japanese assault. To this dilemma The Final Countdown makes a sensible, existentialist response. It is also fully aware of the ironies-the sheer comic puzzlement-implicit in a confrontation between a modern ship of the line and antiques that are a mere four decades...
...that time, British authorities transported the 1,200 inhabitants of Diego Garcia to Mauritius, while retaining control of the atoll. Now Mauritius' Prime Minister, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, says he intends to press a claim of ownership of Diego Garcia upon Britain. In London diplomats expressed some puzzlement at the claim, since Diego Garcia was never officially part of Mauritius, even in colonial days...
...Harvard, the cost of such glory has risen dramatically; and, as seems fashionable these days, the price just keeps climbing. Unfortunately, the Harvard leadership has taken the same type of approach to athletics as Jimmy Carter has taken to the economy: a sort of wide-eyed, respectfully distressed puzzlement, one that lacks any true definition of action and invites an accompanying rampage of rising costs...