Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elections, and there is only a slight possibility that the Republicans may take over the House. In both branches, it is the Southern fortress that will make the Democratic difference. In New York, the nation's most populous state. Democrats seem to be in a hopeless state of disarray; Incumbent Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits are about the safest bets anywhere for reelection. In the Midwest, even the most hopeful Democratic leaders talk about keeping their losses to a minimum...
With its home sector in disarray, there was some evidence that Red China may be willing to resolve its ideological quarrel with the Soviet Union. Before the Congress. Chou En-lai protested that China, as always, was "firmly and unswervingly" a friend of Russia, paid lip service to the Khrushchev line-usually derided in China-of peaceful coexistence with non-Communist countries...
...this year, unlike last, Cuba's revolutionaries have very little to congratulate themselves about. The regime still stands -a well-armed dictatorship is not easily overthrown, as the Bay of Pigs fiasco demonstrated. Yet it is a leadership in disarray, increasingly ostracized by its hemispheric neighbors, beset by economic catastrophe and torn by a bitter, not yet settled internal struggle for power...
Muttering in Bonn. Behind the dizzying series of different proposals, some observers-especially in West Germany-detected a growing disarray in the West's alliance. In Bonn there was muttering about a tack of U.S. leadership, complaints that the wearily continuing talks between U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Russia's Andrei Gromyko in Moscow were doing a lot of harm; to a political meeting, Adenauer cracked that Thompson should not make a career of negotiating with the Russians. The Belgians were still grumbling about the lack of their allies' support in the Congo. Portugal made ugly noises...
NATO's disarray was obvious to both, what with General Lauris Norstad's estimated 25 divisions in Europe today, as against the 98 that the alliance originally planned to put in the field.. Both statesmen also were considerably less enthusiastic than the U.S. and Britain about the usefulness of summit negotiations with Russia (see THE NATION). Both were steel-strong in the determination to hang onto Berlin at any cost...