Word: chaotic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sweltering wood-and-asbestos shed in the backyard of the building where Indonesia had proclaimed its independence twelve years ago, some 150 leaders of the chaotic and divided young republic met last week to see if they could keep their independence and still remain a nation. Said Prime Minister Djuanda: "The central government does not wish to dictate anything. Let's not find faults. Let's discuss our problems with open hearts, and a brotherly manner...
...preoccupation with theology, place and power, and its spiritual ferment). To this was added a fantastic, ramshackle bureaucracy with bewhiskered officials dedicated to the ledgers of obscurantism. Gogol's own parents typified that society. His mother was a pious, eccentric ninny; his father a sometime bureaucrat in the chaotic Russian post office as well as the owner of 3,000 acres, 384 serfs and a vodka distillery...
...blunt, things are chaotic. Housing is miserable and overcrowded. Wages are so low (average: $65 a month) that many a Pole works overtime at two jobs, puts his wife and children to work, or steals what he can from the state-run enterprises, to stay alive. Gomulka had hoped that "creeping freedom" and his stand against the hated Russians would be enough to inspire the Poles to work...
Black Revolt. In the Maryland-sized republic, just three air hours from Miami, the weekend of turmoil only topped off a chaotic political record. In the 153 years since independence, Haiti has had two emperors, one king and 30 Presidents, only two of whom peacefully turned the office over to their successors. Haitian rulers have been fed arsenic, dynamited, driven to suicide, torn to pieces...
...Lord Bountiful. However chaotic their beginnings, neither the foundation nor any of its funds has ever deserved such burning criticism. As a matter of fact, the foundation has come to maturity so rapidly that some academics have begun to wonder whether it might not be in danger of becoming all too conservative. In any case, the fact that it has Henry Heald as president is a significant indication of its development, for few men have won wider respect in business, government and education. An engineer by training and a conservative by temperament, Heald has made an enviable reputation for performing...