Word: disconcertingly
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Bill Paley's explosive energy and his dislike for procedure often disconcert his staff. He sometimes hands out jobs to subordinates in the elevators, or in the morning has a "sensational" idea which he discards by nightfall. But Paley has surrounded himself with a group of hardworking, intense young men who stick to CBS because they like excitement as much as they like the pay that CBS hands out to its upper-bracket...
...halting replies did not disconcert her. She jotted down each one with meticulous care. When it was all over (it had taken 30 minutes), she made a few more notes at the bottom of her clipboard. Telephone? "No." Union member? "No." "Man." "White." She thanked the peddler and moved on to the park adjoining Central Public Library in dirty, downtown Los Angeles...
...Crump, foxy-grandpa boss of Memphis (TIME, May 27), said he had received an extortion note, but declared that he was positively not disconcerted. The threatening note ran; "Pay $50,000 or we will kill you or your wife at a certain date. . . . You will be contacted as to where the payoff is to take place and when. Revised Capone, Inc." The extortionists, theorized brave Boss Crump, "know that an election is coming on and are hoping to disconcert me. But it will have no effect...
...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...