Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything, it seemed to be less business than usual in official Washington. The President was in Key Biscayne, Fla., for most of the week. Henry Kissinger, his own game plan in disarray, went to a Washington Redskins football game, then flew to Palm Springs, Calif., for a New Year's vacation. There, at one point, photographers discovered him strolling with Hollywood Executive Bob Evans. Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig, was "on leave," and outgoing Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird was in Hawaii saying farewell to the Pacific Command. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler was on a week...
...week Aranda flooded the press with photocopied letters and documents that made high-ranking Gaullist ministers. Deputies and party leaders look like influence peddlers for private interests. In the process, he became something of a public hero, and left the government of President Georges Pompidou in embarrassed disarray...
...meditations to ready his heart for the composition of a sermon. But where Edward Taylor's Calvinist God of the 18th Century was as theologically and emotionally fixed as a God could be. Emily's mid-19th Century God was drowned in theological confusion, ministerial debacle and social disarray. Emily Dickinson readied herself before a confusing being who never made clear the emotion or the understanding he demanded. She was bitter and cynical about his elusiveness and her poems are themselves bitter, cynical and elusive. Mildred Dunnock would have done better to speak wrily, slowly and without hyperbole...
HERE, THE NOVEL proceeds into confusion along with Dawes, who can find no firm identity and becomes schizophrenic. But, the confusion of the third part is controlled, even if Dawes is not. The result definitely justifies the reading. Besides chronological disarray, a new element is introduced, chapters from Dawes's own novella in progress...
...power proclaiming that "a man without a job is a man without rights," and he runs the risk of seeing his followers among Jamaica's poor turn against him unless he is able to fulfill some of the expectations he has aroused. The opposition Labor Party is in disarray; Manley's party controls 37 of 53 seats in the House. Even so, Manley has made only a promising start. He has launched several crash public-works programs, including new sidewalks for Kingston, and has appealed to Jamaica's own economists to find original solutions to the country...