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Word: bewilderment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

bug, v. Bewilder or irritate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: FAR-OUT WORDS FOR CATS | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

The Technology of Salvation. While Evangelist Graham sincerely considers himself nothing but a tool of God, he believes in giving God plenty of help with some tools of his own. The tools he has fashioned add up to an intricate technology of soul-saving that might astonish St. Paul, bewilder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Evangelist | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

In full-page ads, newspapers and magazines often trumpet their conflicting circulation claims in ways that bewilder readers but apparently impress ad agencies. Last week the Sunday supplement Parade (circ. 5,115,300) spoofed the whole practice with a circulation brochure to prove that it is headed unmistakably toward the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Almighty Googol | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

WINDING up a five-week stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus was off for Boston on the first lap of its annual 10,000-mile tour. As always, the "Greatest Show on Earth" was jammed with enough clowns, animals and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SPANGLES IN THE AIR | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

By far the best way--and at the same time the least obvious--places you in a position of power. Simply double park in front of the main subway entrance, lock your car and walk off. You get double value. No one would dare steal your car from under the...

Author: By Sylvan Meyer, | Title: Cops, Snow, Tickets Harry Barefoot Boy From Peach State | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

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