Word: disarrayed
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...political arm of the Afrikaners held 123 of the 171 seats in the previous Parliament, and it stands to gain as many as 15 more in the national election on Nov. 30. The opposition parties that traditionally held the loyalty of South Africa's English-speaking whites are in disarray. As has happened so often in their tortured history, the Afrikaners once again are responding to threats from without and within by going into the laager (literally, camp)?an expression from the days of the voortrekkers, South Africa's Boer pioneers, who would drive their ox wagons into...
...longer. Schmidt today is in deep trouble. The West German economy is in the doldrums. His coalition government, which was narrowly returned in the national election last October,* is strained close to the breaking point. Schmidt's own Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) is in disarray, and relations with the U.S. are difficult. Twice last month the Chancellor narrowly avoided humiliating parliamentary defeats. Because of defections within the S.P.D., the government's tax package passed by a scant three votes. Last week, at a tumultuous session of the Bundestag, the coalition defeated a censure motion against Schmidt...
...sophomore found one of his friends in total disarray this fall after he had dropped acid. "He was having these weird, uncontrollable muscle contractions in his face," he said. "I had to sit near him and calm him down all night, he was so scared. I think someone had slipped him something with the acid...
...Fund for the Republic, which fought for civil liberties and became an immediate target of McCarthyism. Its resources were used to found the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a think tank that Hutchins headed for 15 years, resuming its presidency in 1975 when it was in disarray...
Although several notorious gangsters are being prosecuted, pressure on organized crime has eased considerably in the past few years because of disarray among federal law enforcement agencies, notably the FBI, IRS and Drug Enforcement Administration. They are still suffering from the backlash against the civil rights violations committed by some overzealous agents in the 1960s and early 1970s. In addition, the FBI has not yet settled down from the inevitable turmoil that followed the death of Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1972; its parent, the Justice Department, has been disoriented by a revolving door at the top: five chiefs since...