Word: chaotic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When a House select committee investigated surplus disposal in 1946, after Symington had moved on to the War Department, its report rapped him for "chaotic administrative conditions" and "favoritism if not downright corruption" in sales of surplus property. But Symington's SPA, as he pointed out to the committee, had only a policymaking function; actual sales of surplus property were handled by other agencies, mainly the Commerce Department and the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Symington had no operating control over sales, no way of seeing to it that his policies were carried out. After half a year of frustrations...
Sheer physical difficulties were present in the chief Festival accommodation area--the Vienna International Fair Grounds. A fifteen minute walk in a dusty, chaotic atmosphere separated points of importance. Besides the halls taken over for an organization center, the only buildings opened for use were two widely separated restaurants, the Soviet pavilion illuminated at the top by a Red Star, and exhibition halls turned into crude barracks with composition-wood dividers...
Incredibly, among Red China's teeming millions-a manpower shortage developed. Stevedores were shifted from the ports to the paddies, and unloaded ships piled up in the harbors. Railroad workers were rushed to the docks, and train schedules became chaotic. Office workers went to the farms, and commerce staggered. Instead of performing military duties, soldiers were put to work digging ditches and raising pigs. Even the wives and children of army officers and enlisted men hoed cabbages and spread fertilizer...
Rouleau, however, does far better as a director. In a series of remarkably effective close-up shots he manages to dramatically convey the tension, uncertainty, and fear of the people of Salem. Except for an overly chaotic courtroom scene, the picture is smoothly and intelligently handled. (George Auric's score, incidentally, masterfully underlines the terror of the townspeople...
...unprecedented bending to U.S. hunger for personalities, he posed for photographs with his whole family in the Kremlin. Khrushchev in the U.S.-for all the stirrings of conscience and stirrings of resentment among those who fiercely oppose his coming-will probably get more than his share of curious and chaotic attention (see below...