Word: confound
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...make a compelling demonstration of just how little a relief family was getting. While he was addressing his colleagues, they stole the exhibit, sawed the pork chops in half, used the basket as a portable men's room. They bedeviled his witnesses, dug up old ordinances to confound him. Douglas confessed to friends: "I have three degrees. I have been associated with intelligent and intellectual people for many years. Some of these aldermen haven't gone through the fifth grade. But they're the smartest bunch of bastards I ever saw grouped together...