Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happen in Germany, as the war drawn to a close? Will there be a revolt of the army or its officers against the Nazi Party? Or a civilian uprising in Germany? Probably not. Communism? Possibly sporadic efforts to establish it. More likely, however, there will be more or less chaotic conditions after the Nazi totalitarian machine has ben destroyed and its leaders have been assassinated, or taken to flight or hiding, or handed over to be punished as war criminals...
With controversy and dissension seething in their ranks, the Board of Editors of the CRIMSON spent last night in chaotic attempts to christen this paper. Individual enthusiasm for many of the hundred-odd names received was a commonplace, but on none of them could a majority agree...
Elastic defense can be masterful, as Rommel's retreat to Tunisia was, or merely chaotic. The Russians had two chances of making it chaotic-they could drive south through Stalin to the Sea of Azov, pocketing the routed defenders of Rostov, and west from Lozovaya to the Dnieper bend at Dniepropetrovsk, cutting the Caucasian remnant and Crimean garrisons off from convenient retreat by rail or good roads...
...recognition of his status as a hero. Said United Auto Workers President R. J. Thomas: "He has been misinformed by some of the manufacturing groups. .. ." Cried U.A.W. Executive Board Member William McAulay: "We are tired of being slapped down by labor-hating people like Rickenbacker. His speech was chaotic . . . I think Rickenbacker is synthetic." From C.I.O. President Philip Murray came a more restrained comment: "I do not desire to engage in a controversy with Captain Rickenbacker. Forgive him, Lord, for he knows not what he does. . . . The members of our unions have made many sacrifices...
Immediately after the start of the war, educators were worried lent there be a repetition of the chaotic 1918-1919 system of granting blanket credit on a basis of total time in the service. During those years, colleges throughout the nation vied with each other in giving such credit, and thousands of failures resulted...