Word: puzzlement
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Admiral Holloway agreed to this odd request, shook Shehab's hand, and then added, to Shehab's puzzlement: "Lord Mountbatten [Britain's First Sea Lord] asked me to send his best wishes...
Perhaps the Soviet breakthrough, in prompting considerable soul-searching in America, may prove a welcome catalyst to the process of national maturity. Instead of scratching its head and, in angry confusion, dubbing the situation "a puzzlement," the country may gain a new confidence and balance. The price for failing to learn this lesson now may be higher later...
...with Puzzlement. The end result required some 500 staff conferences between Wilde and Bunshaft. Recalls Wilde "I admit I asked Gordon plaintively if there could be any compromise. I'd have loved a fireplace! Well, I have a magnificent office in plain taste." A $100,000 mock-up section was thrown up by Turner Construction Co., and everything, from Linotile to venetian-blind drawstrings, wa tried on it. To reduce heat, a new green-tinted glass was used. To break up space, new movable paneling was developed. To keep maintenance cost low, dark grey Quincy granite...
...swarm of landscape gardeners and foresters came in, built an artificial lake to highlight the building. To adorn the setting Sculptor Noguchi chiseled a brooding group of druidical forms, which President Wilde likes but frankly calls "a puzzlement." For the interiors, pert, petite Florence Knoll of Knoll Associates furnished new chairs and desks designed to help tradition-bound insurance executives relax in 12-ft.-by-12-ft. offices surrounded by chrome and bold, cheery fabrics...
Painter Stallknecht depicted her fellow townspeople with almost embarrassing clarity and force-in attitudes of worship, puzzlement or indifference-around three versions of Christ in modern dress. For a while, the paintings adorned the local Congregational Church. Then, upset at seeing itself mirrored in its own house of worship, the congregation voted to return the pictures to the artist...