Word: disconcertingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools, beauty parlors as jammed as airraid shelters under attack, discussion groups, dancing classes. And everywhere, from swimming pool to dining room, there is the lavish style show that the guests put on themselves. The dawn-to-dawn display of jewels and furs has been known to disconcert even the G's well-trained staff. Last week a waiter greeted a middle-aged lady by asking: "If you wear mink at breakfast, how can you top it the rest of the day?" The woman coolly taught him one of the newer ploys of ostentation: "I save my stone martens...
...bludgeoning phalanx ahead of the ball carrier; the T formation, with its quick-opening plays and tricky hand-off s; the split-T, which spreads the defense for exasperating option plays-Michigan State uses all three and adds even more. At any moment Duffy's quarterbacks may disconcert the defense with a bastard version of the T. In this maneu ver, the ball is snapped directly to the fullback through the T quarterback's legs, leaving the quarterback free to block ahead of the runner or tear downfield for a pass...
...result, some of the faculty conceive him to be an administrative radical seeking unnecessary changes, which they almost believe are designed solely to disconcert the faculty...
...pranced around the post, hooting and whooping derisively at the garrison. Some threw stones. A pretty young girl leaped forward from the crowd and slapped her belly. "Sons?" she taunted. "Our bodies will bear no sons for traitors." Some women bared their breasts at the troops to shame and disconcert them...
...hearings. By the merest tilt of his ample nose, Joseph Nye Welch conveys to millions of televiewers his utter disdain or disbelief; with a gentle pressure of fingertips on his lips or an amused 'sparkle in his eye, he semaphores an attack that will bruise Roy Cohn or disconcert Joe McCarthy...