Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these chaotic '40s Dr. Niebuhr is not alone in doubting the goodness of man and the certainty of progress. To him sin is not ignorance, but pride and self-righteousness. He finds the good fully balanced by the evil in humanity, sees hope only if man admits his unworthiness and throws himself on God for help. Convinced that modern civilization is bad and "careening at the present moment to almost certain destruction," he terms the assumption that evolution is tending ever upwards superficial and unwarranted, calls a halt to theology's capitulation to science...
Painful Exigencies. Stirring around in the chaotic confusion that after six weeks of peace still prevailed throughout unoccupied France, Minister for Youth and Family Jean Ybarnegaray attempted last week to extricate French youth. Aping the Nazis, he organized "Youth Groups," his goal being to build strong Frenchmen by sport, work and "directed, clean living while still young ... to prepare youth morally and physically to meet the painful exigencies of existence...
...Government for not restoring pre-war conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry caused sleepless nights to the quasi-Führers at Vichy...
...last three years Japan's Government has seemed totalitarian, but it has actually been unmitigated chaos. Japanese realize this, and have wistfully desired to do something about it. Since the Emperor, the Army and the Constitution are in varying degrees inviolable, it was concluded that the first chaotic element to unify should be the political parties. Japan's two major, three minor parties rate as follows...
...short of war" because it might be hazardous in the extreme for this country to become involved in war, if that war is soon to be lost. It may well be that we shall want to intervene later, but we must first see our way more clearly than the chaotic events of this moment will permit. What is needed now is a clear-headed and realistic willingness to learn the lessons of events as they occur and to come to these events with our minds unburdened with rigid attitudes adopted in advance...