Word: disconcertingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesuit Edward Boyd Barrett, in The Jesuit Enigma, declared that Jesuits are urged to look people straight in the nose, presumably to disconcert them. Good Jesuits consider this romancing-a distortion of the truth that sight, like other senses, may cause sinning...
...goodwill dating from Queen Victoria? Could humdrum Mr. Baldwin keep steady and do his awful duty while narrow Downing Street echoed to such cries as "God save the King-from Bald- win! FLOG BALDWIN! FLOG HIM!! WE-WANT-EDWARD!!!" The last man in the world whom such cries could disconcert is Mr. Baldwin, and the last woman is Mrs. Baldwin...
...Bruins may disconcert the Crimson five tonight with their fast-breaking game, but if Harvard recovers as quickly as it did from the famous Yale zone defence system there is little to fear...
Owen, Tommy Bilodeau, and Braman Gibbs an imposing trio of batters, may well disconcert Phillip Press, who will be toeing the slab for Cornell...
...Parliament's name," roared the president, "I order you to burst in the gates." Oddly enough the order was obeyed. This appeared rather to disconcert the wafdists who trooped in for an uneventful session at which the royal decree dissolving Parliament was read amid dead silence...