Word: puzzlements
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...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...
...children." Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts convened an unofficial hearing on the U.S. dissent, which he denounced as "shameful." Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon warned that the vote could send "a message of indifference to the sanctity of human life." Outside the U.S., the reaction was more puzzlement than anger, though even London's conservative Financial Times declared, "It is special pleading of the worst kind to invoke the right to free expression and free competition if a potential danger to life and health has been identified...