Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintained a taxing schedule of appointments with Administration officials, whom he has summoned to Texas to discuss topics ranging from aluminum prices to last month's blackout in the Northeast. Nonetheless, Johnson's absence from the capital has unquestionably occasioned an atmosphere of drift and disarray within his Administration. Indeed, he is about to enter the most difficult phase of his presidency...
Lyndon, of course, accepted second billing after losing the nod to J.F.K., and in the hectic vice-presidential campaign that followed, Moyers alone could control the disarray for which the boss was notorious. He knew the schedules, kept the press informed, proved a whiz at making arrangements. He claims he was no more than "hands and feet" during the entire operation, but Lyndon obviously valued him more highly than that. So did Kennedy's Irish Mafia, whose members found Moyers one of the few Johnson aides with whom they could work. After the inauguration, Moyers was installed...
...other consolations for the Guild, still fewer for the Times. "We don't like the settlement," said Times Vice President Ivan Veit, "but we'll learn to live with it." Kheel had made it clear that the paper's labor-relations department was in sad disarray; it would have to be revamped before it could deal intelligently with the difficulties ahead. Beyond all that, there was the more immediate problem of making up lost advertising revenue and winning back lost readers. And despite their strike benefits, the Guildsmen would be a long time making up what they...
...political and economic disarray, Brazil remains a huge, vigorously growing nation that is learning to take advantage of its universal resources. One day recently, President Castello Branco flew 350 miles south from Brasilia to preside over two impressive ceremonies. At a construction site on the Rio Grande River in Minas Gerais, a mighty dynamite blast signaled the start of work on the Estreito Dam, which will generate 800,000 kw. of power when it is finished in 1969. A few hours later and 44 miles away, Castello Branco witnessed the completion of Latin America's biggest hydroelectric complex...
...fighting lasted more than a decade. France sent 20,000 troops to end the rebellion?only to see half of them wiped out by yellow fever and the rest thrown into disarray. In 1804, a former slave named Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti a free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years...