Word: disarray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real confusion on the unquiet Western front is over the German problem. On this the Western powers are in disarray. At one side stands the U.S., still inclined to feel that the division of Germany into two nations is, in the long run, both untenable and dangerous, but pledged to seek new ways of solving the "abnormal" situation of isolated West Berlin. At the other extreme stands De Gaulle, who sees no reason to want any change in the German situation, opposes reunification of East and West Germany on the ground that it might mean the end of West Germany...
Returning from a 68-day world jaunt a month ago to find his country an economic mess and in political disarray, President Sukarno of Indonesia surrendered to army pressure by reviving the dictatorial 1945 constitution and appointing to his powerful new "inner" Cabinet not a single Communist Party member (TIME, July 20). Last week the Communists, who still claim 1,500,000 members, got another slap. On the very day that their newspaper Harian Rakjat (People's Daily) announced the convening of their big sixth national congress next week, Army Chief of Staff Abdul Haris Nasution ordered that...
...interim between Geneva I and Geneva II (due to resume July 13), the headlines tended to stress the disarray in the Western camp: Britain's impatience for a summit on any terms, Adenauer's quibbles with Britain and quarrels with his own party, De Gaulle's insistent demand for big-power status. But serious headlines, based on the anxieties of the moment, are apt to obscure basic trends that move more slowly-slower trends that justified a more optimistic outlook in July...
Some individuals, blocked in attempts to see the fascinating and proscribed, have not been content to be stopped at the reference desk. Librarians occasionally find books in disarray on the X Cage floor, as if knocked loose by a stick or similar object. They hypothesize that some of the especially eager have reached through the narrow opening between the stack and the ceiling of a lower level, is reflected in the preponderance of articles about jobs and careers open to women, as well as in the underlying assumption in all these early publications that a Radcliffe magazine was interesting...
...Nobody Knew. Back at "Vatican City," the Prime Minister had every reason to be pleased with his lot. With the Laborites in near disarray, Tory stock was going up, the nation's gold and dollar reserves were at a seven-year high of more than $3 billion, and not even Britain's fear of war over Quemoy had produced much of a public clamor. The man nobody thought could ever be popular had brought his party a long way from the dark days of Suez. Said one happy Tory last week: "We're well...