Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson's own colleagues have been urging him to go to the country for the greatly increased majority they are sure he could win. But the way things stand, official spokesmen for each side claim they want no vote right now. The Tories are in almost total disarray, convinced that they cannot win with Home but fearing to oust him because Wilson might call a snap election before they can build up a new leader. Polls show that Labor would probably win a hefty majority, but Wilson leaves the impression that he has his own pragmatic reasons...
Best Friends. Two weeks ago, declaring himself pained by the disarray in the party, Kennedy proposed that the leadership issue be taken up by the legislators in a secret ballot; voting in secret, they would presumably be free of their various overlords' control and break the deadlock. Wagner was pressured into accepting the plan publicly, and even signed a statement calling for such a vote. But when he thought it over, he realized that-secrecy or no secrecy-he simply didn't have the votes...
...chairman," says Bliss. "I don't profess to be an orator. I've always felt it my duty to build up the candidates, not Ray Bliss." The national build-up job that he faces now is monumental. The Republicans' rank-and-file structure, demoralized and in disarray after Barry Goldwater's leaden leadership, must be almost completely remodeled and reorganized. Dean Burch, inexperienced and fanatically loyal to Barry's right wing, purged some of the National Committee's best staff people on the ground-real or imagined-that they were not trustworthy...
What with Western Europe's glowing prosperity and the corresponding disarray behind the Iron Curtain...
...This issue has gone too far. I ask you why should we endorse the national ticket when our club has been shattered by it--our membership in disarray," Robert L. Beal '63, the first speaker for the faction opposing endorsement, said...