Word: disarray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Administration's Grenada venture had turned out a popular success, the Government's information apparatus was still in some disarray. Last week, for example, State Department Spokesman John Hughes officially confirmed a rumor that a grave holding more than 100 bodies of Grenadians slain by Marxist forces in the "bloody Wednesday" massacre of Oct. 19 had been found on the island. Next day he had to admit there was no such discovery. U.S. military authorities later located a grave believed to have held the burned bodies of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and three Cabinet members...
...dozen grammar school students, clad in denim shifts or designer jeans, shook their fists and cried, "The Yanquis will die!" before breaking into bashful giggles as adults smiled their approval. Finally, a high school marching band tramped loudly up to the monument, throwing a gaggle of preschoolers into disarray. As some toddlers cringed, while others sucked their thumbs, teachers urged their little charges to ball their fists and punch the air in time to the martial strains...
...Hyland. "Is he an apparition?" Andropov has not been seen in public since Aug. 18, and Hyland has noticed an uncharacteristic tendency of Soviet leaders recently to emphasize different aspects of Soviet policy with little apparent coordination. "That's just not the Soviet way," notes Hyland. "It suggests disarray...
...doubles results defy anyone who might be skeptical of Harvard's versatility. Thrown into disarray by the injury of number two player Erika Smith early in the season, both doubles teams had played only a very few matches before this weekend...
Most experts now think a baby is born with a number of reflexes that are gradually replaced by the "cortical behavior" dictated from the cortex of its rapidly developing brain. Brown's Lipsitt believes that a period of "disarray" during the course of this transition may be an important element in the "crib deaths" that can mysteriously strike during the first year. The struggle to escape from accidental smothering in bedclothes, known as the "respiratory occlusion reflex," is automatic at birth but then needs to be learned. Says Lipsitt: "The peak of 'disarray' is right...