Word: disarray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repealer of the Neutrality Act's "neutrality"; that the U.S. had steam up to start convoying its own ships directly across the Atlantic directly into British and Russian ports. The shooting had started, and convoying would mean more shooting. The President knew that around him, in the rolling disarray of marble slabs and granite headstones, there was still room for dead heroes...
...play is by Aristophanes and three thousand years old, but the production to be offered at Sanders tonight and tomorrow by the Student Union Theatre is as timely as the latest headline, and as diverting as the brightest Broadway revue. Even in dress rehearsal disarray, (which is when we caught it) "Peace" gave every indication of being the most stimulating theatrical event around Cambridge this season...
...discovered that you could and should get away with a minimum of reading. He had learned how to tell what was the important part of a lecture or a chapter. The course had taught him how to get down to work and how to organize a disturbing disarray of dates and names in an orderly sequence. Perhaps most important of all, the endless succession of weekly, bi-weekly, tri-weekly "quizzes" had taught him of necessity how to pass tests; even now, whenever he starts writing an exam Vag thinks of another sentence of that same lecturer: "In an hour...