Word: confounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruth and Gehrig, rushed into the pandemonium in the Yankee dressing room and planted a kiss on DiMaggio's forehead. "Just had to do it," Dugan explained, "I've never seen anybody who could surpass this guy." On the third day, Joe whomped homer No. 4 to confound the Red Sox and sweep the series. After the sportwriters ran out of superlatives, all the great DiMaggio could do was grin...
...month local option bill as a triumph of "the joint efforts of the Congress and the Administration." The National Association of Real Estate Boards, in equally strange fashion, publicly praised the new rent law though they had privately complained to the President against it. The C.I.O., to confound the confusion, called the rent law "counter to the wishes of the people as expressed by President Truman . . ." The C.I.O. apparently hadn't got the word yet; at the moment the White House found even half a loaf nourishing...
...concerned. Plan A provides for a strong Mayor and doesn't have the unpleasant proportional representation rider attached, although it does out the Council from 22 to nine members, lopping off some important sources of graft for the machine. Of course Curley, intends only to confound the opposition; he will drop his support of the plan once it gets on the ballot, send the word along the line, and the machine will be operating under the same old system after the elections in November...
...page to guide his hand, an average of six lines a day. When he went to France for treatment, physicians warned him that he would go insane if he continued to write. His wife and son died. He envied his fellow historian, William Prescott (also half blind), because Prescott, "confound him," could read his proofs, "but I am no better off than an owl in the twilight." At 42, Parkman began writing France and England in North America...
...indignantly rejected because her skirt was rucked up above one knee. And, from the start, profanity was simply not tolerated. When the eaters of Sweeney Todd's delicious pies were told that their mouths were full of human flesh, they delicately exclaimed: "Good gracious! . . . Confound...