Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While students miles away in the University of Missouri are living in trailer camps and sleeping there deep in the gymnasium, authorities here confidently expect "shrinkage" in registration figures to ease present chaotic housing conditions to a satisfactory level. Within a matter of weeks, they predict, students temporarily bunking in the Athletic Building will be allotted dormitory space...
...around mental hospitals and prisons where I "accidentally" had access to files of psychiatric diagnosis. Uhler's note on the "Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase" would be a kind way to state the chaotic, uncritical "diagnosis" of psychiatrists in general...
Joseph Cardinal Frings (who replaced aging Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber at the Conference of German Bishops just ended at Fulda) spoke a Christian word to the victors last week. Bitterly criticizing Allied attempts to resettle 14 million Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia within the crowded borders of the chaotic Reich, he said...
...retrospective show of Bonnard's 35 color symphonies was the talk of the town. Cagey Paris art dealers valued them at 500,000 francs apiece ($4,200), three times their prewar price. Critics and gallery goers wondered whether it meant that postwar Frenchmen wanted a rest from the chaotic world, and from the chaotic painting which had mirrored it for three decades...
Whoever got the job, things could not get much worse in Chile. Ever since the nitrate market broke in the early '30s, both economic and political conditions had been chaotic. Alessandri's social legislation of the '20s, a model of its time, had proved no panacea. Ineptness and bickering had marked eight years of Popular Front rule; plans to cut up big estates and increase agricultural production had been balked by rightists who still controlled banks and social security funds. The present murderous inflation had spawned a new group of profiteering capitalists, cushioned the old ones...