Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubtful whether the last minute changes mattered a lot. Here is a rag-tag sketch, something informal, something that would suffer more from a bad stab at giving it professional gloss than from the loose and chaotic treatment Charles Mee, director, has given it. Not to say, of course, that a slick, carefully conceived job mightn't have been better; just probably impossible here...
...member of the present Student Council I am rather disturbed by the rapidly degenerating Council relations with the student body and its ability to handle expeditously, sincerely, and democratically regular Council business. As any member or visitor knows, Council meetings are unnecessarily long and chaotic, marked by frequent points of order or personal privilege and long, irrelevant discussion of picayune points that tend to completely dominate sincere discussion of the broader issues...
...appearance . . . There could be a slightly Gilbert and Sullivanish flavor to the whole affair-royal background, star-crossed lovers, Episcopal blunderbuss, aging clerical sap, now for the mustard and cress-if it weren't all so desperately troubling . . . The lives of two people . . . her duty and his ... a chaotic moral theology . . . Romantic individualism was masquerading as the Gospel-is there anyone not moved to the, deepest and most penitent intercession for all concerned...
Ezra Taft Benson, once a Republican hairshirt, is now generally regarded as a true prophet because he has consistently tried to bring some sense to the chaotic farm-subsidy program...
...apart. Dwight moved through the Army's glacially slow peacetime promotion list, then burst to five-star status in World War II. Milton moved steadily up the government promotion list, became one of the most highly regarded officials in Washington. Under Henry Wallace, he restored order to a chaotic land-use program that at one point urged some farmers to reduce their cotton acreage, urged others to increase it. At the start of World War II, he was placed in charge of relocating West Coast Japanese in the U.S. interior, carried out a heartbreaking job with personal dignity...