Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wood signed up, sailed with the Rainbow Division under Douglas MacArthur, who was chief of staff and is still a close friend. Before long, Wood was ordered from France to Washington as acting quartermaster general, and promoted to brigadier general. In a short time, he reorganized the chaotic Army procurement. At war's end, Julius Thorne, a Wood aide who in civilian life was president of Montgomery Ward, took the general back there with...
Some radio listeners last week tried to puzzle their way through Café Istanbul's chaotic plot. But others were content just to listen to the clinging, faintly accented voice of Marlene Dietrich, who opened her new radio series as the Café's owner. As she has countless times since the classic Blue Angel, Marlene played the same romantic, Weltschmerz role and whispered snatches of French and German songs. Some listeners may have felt cheated because Marlene was limited to a few choruses of La Vie en Rose and four bars of a song in German...
...left to "work out their own destiny" without help, the countries of the Middle East will disintegrate. The living standard will drop and political life become even more chaotic. (Half a dozen important political leaders in the Near and Middle East were assassinated during...
...chaotic early days, pay was low. Ross himself (who eventually got $50,000 a year) had his salary computed every month, based on earnings. Once, when Ross was explaining things to a new managing editor, he said, "I am surrounded by idiots and children." At that point, a copy boy burst in, shouting: "Mr. Thurber is standing on a ledge outside the window and threatening to commit suicide." (Actually, Thurber was merely sitting on the ledge to get a whiff of fresh air.) Ross turned to the editor. "See?" he said...
...While the publications you describe as "intellectual quarterlies, poetry magazines, and science journals" have a valued and respected place in our culture, the chaotic world conditions of today create an urgent need for escape and release of inner tensions brought about by the threat of impending global doom...