Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scarcely a decade after a war-ravaged Europe seemed hopelessly dependent on U.S. dole, a revitalized Continent is going through the greatest boom in its history, excelling Soviet progress, matching and even competing with U.S. economic power. At a time when the U.N. is in disarray and U.S. policymakers are looking to other institutions and communities for strength, such institutions and such a community are developing in Europe. At a time when so much heed is paid to the "new" nations, with all their bursting little new nationalisms, it is Europe's old nations, relaxing nationalist feuds, which...
...flew into Washington's MATS terminal one day last week, the capital simmered in tropical 90° heat. But more than the weather had Chen warm under the collar. After years of concord, relations between the U.S. and her stanchest Pacific ally seemed to be falling into disturbing disarray...
...like driftwood on a beach were inlaid sideboards, china cupboards and end tables. Marble busts stood in dusty splendor on all the tables and desks; mirrors leaned at odd angles against the walls. Art and antique magazines, cardboard cartons and discarded papers littered the room. The scene of this disarray was not Ye Olde Antique Shoppe, but the paneled office of White House Curator Mrs. James N. Pearce, head huntress for Jackie Kennedy in her campaign to turn the White House into a treasure trove of Early Americana...
...departed for Sante prison, reflectively smoking his pipe. Both troubled and relieved by the lenient sentences, Paris' thoughtful Le Monde felt that greater severity might have provoked "the indignation of the majority of the French. Why? Because today minds are divided, institutions uncertain, and civil sense in disarray...
Most of the headlines these days (as well as the facts) emphasize the Western disarray as bargaining begins at Geneva. But the big Communist powers, outwardly cocky as they seem, are having major trouble of their...