Word: puzzlements
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...surprising that many of us who stay here are puzzled about those who leave, or that our puzzlement is compounded by the likelihood that, in addition to students who "vote with their feet" by taking time off or withdrawing from Harvard, there are increasing numbers of strong, intelligent young people who "vote" by never applying here to begin with. It kinda makes you wonder about the rest...
Europeans find New York City's problems hard to understand because they cannot imagine a national government on the Continent allowing one of its major cities to go bankrupt. Amid the puzzlement, however, Europeans were deeply disquieted as they read of President Ford's New York policy...
...veritable woman without a country. Ever since they began pulling the undergraduate rug from underneath her through a series of Harvard-Radcliffe mergings that has reduced Radcliffe to a couple of letterheads and a post office box, Horner's day-to-day role in the University has been a puzzlement. What ever it is, she plays it with gusto, and she is one of the more accessible administrators in the University...
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...