They were too baffled to think of much, but the mayor enjoyed sitting in the shade of magnolias and drinking lemonade.
European statesmen profess to be baffled as to why their economies are failing to create the new jobs needed to keep their populations off the dole.
He has set up a series of councils of advisers to act as a parallel source of thinking to the ministries, but has left even the councils baffled as to who is in charge of what.
Officials are apparently baffled as to the reason behind the threats.
Dozens of books have come out about the Yugoslav wars but there must be plenty of readers who deep down are still baffled as to why Yugoslavs did this to themselves.
Varma, who plans to start deferring 15% of her pay after the wedding, wants a more conservative allocation in her plan to offset that risk, but is baffled by which of 12 Fidelity funds to choose.
Scientists had been baffled for years trying to figure out how the humble old schnozz performs its miracles.
The MP said he was baffled by the refusal to release Welsh details when the same rules applied in England.
But it has baffled scientists for decades as to why just a third of this expected number could actually be detected.
And the UCATT construction union said it was baffled by the decision not to extend its remit, saying there is endemic abuse of vulnerable workers in the building industry.
Economists, typically baffled by selflessness, have tended to hunt for hidden self-interest in apparent altruism.
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In fact, it's become a minor journalistic genre, the baffled inability by the older generation to comprehend what today's young people face.
Visitors to the Wexner seemed as baffled as I was by the inclusion of conceptual work of Walead Beshty.
People in the Bay and beyond are genuinely baffled at why Mr Jones has decided to do something so obviously political damaging and so public.
And the baffled doctors, he says, unable to find a clear cause for the problem, tend to assume that it is all in the mind.
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The short-term reason is that this is just the baffling way in which traders behave, because they are just as baffled as you are, but likelier to lose their shirts.
Mr Portillo's transformation from right-wing ideologue to touchy-feely liberal clearly baffled some of his audience.
Carol, no disrespect intended, but I have to say that I was completely baffled reading your opinion piece here.
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Mr Miller, who was born in a big mill town, sounds baffled by his countrymen's mystical attachment to the soil.
The ring has baffled archaeologists because it is unlike any other according to the Yorkshire Museum.
The king, a genial Anglophile who went to Sandhurst, is appalled and slightly baffled by events.
Many novelty Twitterers with large followings are baffled by their popularity, which has led them to think about the relationship between the Internet and the real world.
Just as baffled are two U.S. experts who flew to Sarawak after seeing an SOS appeal on the Internet.
But that wasn't enough to satisfy his fans, who were left baffled, then angry that their idol's set had been cut short.
Jake, who is highly moral, eager to impress, and ambitious, is hurt and baffled.
Woodson was still in the process of trying to pin down precisely how to counter the Pacers' top-ranked defense, which appears to have engendered a bit of infighting among the baffled Knick offense.
As long as that attitude is pervasive, the high price of prescription drugs is likely to remain a problem for drugmakers, who are baffled that they are nearly as reviled as tobacco companies even though they make life saving medicines.
The police set up vehicle check points, and detectives went door to door in the vicinity looking for witnesses but were baffled that no one had reported the apparent victims missing.
It's very quick to get around the phone, and it seldom leaves me baffled the way many incarnations of Android do.
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