Word: disarray
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...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...
...Alliance's last-ditch efforts to attract anti-Thatcher sentiment received a timely boost from Labor Leader Michael Foot's manifest ineptness on the stump, as well as from the growing disarray within the Labor Party. The leftist New Statesman abandoned its traditional support for Labor, urging its readers to vote for the Alliance in an effort to "stop Thatcherism in its tracks." Concluded the 70-year-old weekly: "The priority now must be to deny Mrs. Thatcher her goal of a working majority large enough for her to railroad through another five years of New Rightism...
Nowhere has Labor fallen into greater disarray than on defense issues. The party's policy of opposing the installation of U.S. cruise missiles in Britain will, believes Teacher Geraldine Ellison in Norfolk, encourage the Soviets "to think we are weak." Labor also loses points for its infighting over defense. In line with the manifesto, Foot has maintained that Britain would be a "nonnuclear nation" by the end of a five-year Labor government. At the same time, the more moderate Healey was strongly implying that Britain's Polaris missiles would be retained if the Soviets failed to agree...