Word: bedlam
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Wolf-Wolfery. For two years the civilian supply issue has been a bedlam compounded of 1) cries of "Wolf!" from civilians and businessmen at every threatened cut; 2) cries of "Shame!" from other civilians and Government men bent on greater war production. The you-can't-do-that-to-me school kept the U.S. wasting precious materials much too long, delayed realistic decisions on how lean the U.S. economy could become. But the you-must-suffer school did equal damage by ignoring the obvious fact that a bedrock economy for the U.S. must be based upon the U.S. standard...
...earth" - without benefit of any priorities whatsoever. But last week as the Big Show boomed into its second jampacked week at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (prospective gross for the 36-day run: almost $2,000,000), George Smith was calm & collected in the midst of his bedlam. He knows that the circus was always a crazy business...
...Benes or Bedlam. Last week, in Collier's, the Polish Premier turned on Russia with a proposal to enact a federation of small states from the Baltic to the Black Sea, a bloc which would wall off the Soviet Union within its prewar boundaries...
...scared about the Republican Party. I heard so many bitter, raucous, desk-pounding diatribes against the President and the New Deal. Which is all right. . . . But the trouble with the Republican leaders in Congress and such as I found in the more violent wards of the New York bedlam is that they are just ferninsters They are 'agin' everything and 'for' nothing...
...Come on, you mortar men, rise and shine," he says softly, before reveille. The ensuing scramble is pure bedlam, because the last two men of the platoon to answer roll call get the "yardbird" detail. When the Marines sailed for the Solomons, officers debated whether to take ancient Lou Diamond overseas. Lou bellowed orders to his platoon so boisterously that he sounded like all the sergeants in the Corps. He went along...