Word: puzzlements
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...media was at a loss to explain the Fidrych phenomenon, though they attempted to conceal their puzzlement in a blitz of coverage. They asked Fidrych questions, but they werv unsure whether the inchoate answers they received constituted answers. They dug into his past life, talked to his cigar-chomping high school coaches, asked his mother his favorite dish, and visited his old stomping grounds at the gas station. Time and Newsweek featured him with their usual platitudes, running on about the "new baseball fad" or "the teenage symbol." But the more the media mucked and raked, the more they betrayed...
This insistence that Lance had done no wrong increased the puzzlement of old Washington hands about Jimmy Carter. Many members of the Washington establishment still resent that he made them an issue in the campaign, often with moralistic promises to do better than they had ("I'll never lie to you"). These legislators and bureaucrats are not displeased to see Carter set back, but many of them also worry that his mishandling of the Lance affair shows that he is more isolated than is good for the country...
...human rights issue has become the centerpiece of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. His stand is popular at home; abroad it has won admiration mixed with puzzlement and even indignation. The policy ran into two major tests last week at diplomatic meetings more than 5,000 miles apart. In Grenada, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance found himself defending the Administration's criticism of human rights violations by various Latin American governments against a chorus of officials who argued that terrorism is more of a menace (see following story). In Belgrade, differences between the Kremlin and the White House...
...case, few on Wall Street will be sorry to see 1976 end. It has been a strange year, in which a volcanic opening led only to months of puzzlement and frustration. Paralleling the economy's robust first-quarter growth, the Dow spurted ahead 157 points, to 1009, from Jan. 1 to March 24. But for the next six months the market moved listlessly sideways. Tantalizingly, the Dow pierced the 1000 mark no fewer than eleven times during the year, only to fall back every time. On Sept. 21, the index reached 1014, its peak for the year, but then...
...surely read about it in The Crimson the next morning. However, if The Crimson were my only source, I would never have known that the William Belden Noble Lectures were given in Memorial Church on November 3, 4 and 5 to an audience of several hundred. It is a puzzlement to me that you would not consider the presence on campus of a scholar of the international stature of Hans Kung to be newsworthy...