Word: confounded
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...fifteen miles." But Bullaro is not selling something; he is a man pedaling a bicycle. The author repeats himself, achieving a sort of tautologous stammer: "What would prove to be decisive in her decision," or the "hearing would not be heard for at least another hour." Plurals and singulars confound him: "Men who noticed that their wives aroused other men became in many cases aroused by her themselves." He confuses foreboding with forbearance, uses interfaith for the opposite, intrafaith, and misapplies who, whom, which and that with abandon...
...Israelis have occupied the rest of the city since the Six-Day War of 1967. But the bill's effect, as with so many of the dubious actions that have attended the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, was to strengthen Israel's enemies and to confound its allies. Lamented Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, a disappointed opponent of the bill: "Whom did it help? I see what confusion it has created, even among our friends...
...politician who thinks he has what it takes to confound 220 million-to-one odds and rest his feet on the Oval Office desk, New Hampshire is the place where dreams take shape or begin to crumble...